VCAT

Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT) - Abortion values clarification workshop

PI: Laura Jacques

Graduate Student Lead: Elise Cowley

The current project aims to increase patient access to abortion by implementing an evidence-based intervention designed to reduce provider stigma around abortion. One such intervention is the Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT) Workshop. VCAT workshops are interactive sessions aimed at helping participants understand and contextualize the reasons for and situations in which people seek abortion care and explore and challenge their own and other’s beliefs about this care. These workshops have been implemented successfully with healthcare workers internationally, but few studies have evaluated the impact of VCAT workshops on U.S. physician residents and none have evaluated the impact in medical students.