
Two New Summer 2026 Learning AdventuresÌý
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Reproductive Justice Summer Institutes:
Combatting Abortion Care & Reproductive Health
Mis-&-Dis InformationÌý
Live & In-person in the Blue Ridge Mountains
August 6 – 9 for Premed Students
August 27 – 30 for Medical Students
FULL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE – SEATS LIMITED!
Deadline to Apply June 28
- If YOU Believe in science & evidence-based health care, and that reproductive health services, including abortion care, are essential to comprehensive health care
- If YOU Are Alarmed by growing mis-&-dis information related to reproductive health care designed to cause confusion and perpetuate myths in order to restrict access and ban care
- If YOU Are Looking to Build Knowledge, Skills & Community with like-minded future physicians committed to reproductive health and justiceÌýREAD ON!
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Abortion Care & Reproductive Health Project is excited to host
TWO new in-person Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes this summer,
one designed for PREMED STUDENTS, another designed for MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Our retreat-like setting is a beautiful private location nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Each Institute will engage 8 U.S. based medical or premedical students in thought-provoking, dynamic conversations, issue education, and hands-on skill-building with key experts working in abortion care, reproductive health education, research, or reproductive and social justice.Ìý
- MEDICAL STUDENTS APPLY TODAY
- PREMEDICAL STUDENTS APPLY TODAY
Our Institutes are designed to build knowledge, skills, and connections in a supportive, nurturing and Love-centered community, with a focus on finding and connecting with joy as we work on challenging issues facing our communities and future practice as physicians.
Together we will explore the impact of the overturning of Roe v. Wade on reproductive health access, practice and policies, as well as taking deep dives into growing mis-and-dis information being weaponized to limit options, restrict access to reproductive health care, and ban abortion care across the country. Learning opportunities will also include:
- effective messaging communications
- networking and advocacy training
- building power and your circles of influence
- values-based research and using data to make change.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Reproductive Health Project provides resources and on-going support to organize local education and skill-building sessions for future physicians around the United States.
Institute participants will be encouraged and supported to share the knowledge and skills they will gain through research project posters, journal articles, blog posts, social media, or organizing local events during the 2026-2027 academic year. Local events could include, but are not limited to: skills-building, networking and advocacy training, issue education, understanding state reproductive health policies, and values-based messaging and research.
The Institutes begin on Thursday evening with a group dinner and ends after breakfast on Sunday morning. In addition to didactic and clinical workshop-style learning, there will be ample time for informal conversations, delicious meals and snacks, walking in the woods, star-gazing, and relaxing in the hot-tubs and around the fire. Each participant will have their own bedroom, some bathrooms will be shared.
- Want to know more about what an Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Repro Institute is really like?
Read what a M4 student who joined us last summer had to say about the experience
Recharging Your Medical Passion: The Power of a Retreat
Why Every Medical Student Should Do a Medical Retreat (for any specialty)
Successful applicants will receive reimbursements (up to $600) to cover their travel expenses (students make their own travel arrangements). All meals, on-site training supplies, and transportation from the to the retreat location are provided at no cost.
DEADLINES:
- Application deadline for our Summer 2026 Reproductive Justice Institute on Mis-and-Dis Information is Sunday, June 28 at 11:59pmPT
- Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis and will be notified of acceptance at least 30 days before the Institute
- Selected applicant must confirm attendance within 7 days of notification of their selection
Upon completion of the Institute, certificates of participation to add to your CV will be provided.
FULL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE – SEATS LIMITED!
MEDICAL STUDENTS APPLY TODAY
PREMEDICAL STUDENTS APPLY TODAY
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For more information email rhp@amsa.org
*Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ membership info link
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