CME Credit Available
This activity offers
1 Category 1-A AOA
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
About
The rapid evolution in contraceptive technology demands a critical assessment of current methods and emerging options in clinical practice. Inconsistencies in provider knowledge and counseling approaches impact method selection, continuation rates, and patient satisfaction, highlighting the need for standardized, evidence-based protocols. This presentation will examine contraceptive efficacy data and clinical implementation strategies to strengthen provider competency in family planning services.
This presentation evaluates recent developments in contraceptive delivery systems, including updates in long-acting reversible contraceptives, hormonal formulations, and barrier methods. Through analysis of method-specific failure rates, contraindications, and side effect profiles, providers will develop frameworks for patient selection and management. The session will address practical implementation of shared decision-making techniques, enabling providers to align method selection with patient preferences and clinical indicators. Participants will gain concrete strategies for integrating current evidence into their contraceptive counseling practice.
Faculty
Jodi Benett, DO, FACOOG (Dist.)
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Dr. Benett is a board-certified gynecologist who has been a clinician at the Advocare Center for Specialized Gynecology since October 2007. Dr. Benett graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with honors, from Rutgers College in 1983. She is a prestigious Henry Rutgers Scholar. She attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and graduated in 1987. She then completed a traditional rotating one-year internship, followed by residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, from 1988-1992, at Kennedy Health System/University Medical System and Our Lady of Lourdes, the core teaching affiliates of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. (Rowan University-School of Osteopathic Medicine).
Dr. Benett is the current chair of the Government Affairs Committee, which gives her a seat on the ACOG Government Relations Committee. She has participated with the ACOG, Congressional Leadership Conferences, for the past several years, Lobbying on Capitol Hill for Women’s Health Care. She has become a champion for women’s legislative issues. She is also part of the ACOG District 3 council and has also lobbied in Harrisburgh, PA, for the state where she resides. Dr. Benett is a member of the ACOOG physician response committee, rendering her opinion to current and important briefs.
Dr. Benett is a compassionate practitioner caring for women along the spectrum of a women’s life cycle, from adolescence to post-menopause. She is in private practice. Her concentrations include treatment and evaluation of Pap tests and Colposcopy, menopause counseling, and Hormonal treatment options (Both traditional and bio-identical), menstrual disorders, and evaluation with endometrial biopsy as clinically indicated polycystic ovarian syndrome (diagnosis and treatments), and preconception care. Contraceptive options include Long-Acting Contraceptive Options, (LARC), Subdermal Implant Device, and Intrauterine Devices. She is a member of the National Association of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG). Her current talk is related to patients she sees in her practice.
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Learning Objectives
Those participating in this activity will receive information that should allow them to:
- Summarize the different types of contraceptive methods available, including hormonal, non-hormonal, barrier methods, and long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).
- Explain updates on several contraceptive methods, formulations, or delivery systems (e.g., hormonal patches, vaginal rings, implant).
- Compare the efficacy rates of various contraceptive methods and discuss their safety, including contraindications and side effects.
- Identify strategies to support shared decision-making in selecting contraceptive methods based on individual needs.
Conflict of Interest DisclosuresACOOG requires each planner and presenter to identify all financial relationships with ineligible companies, and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant relationships. Unless otherwise noted below, the ACOOG, ACOOG staff and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Dr. Benett has no relevant relationship with an ineligible company to disclose.
Webinar Information
This is a live webinar. Those who register will be able to submit question to the faculty member. In this format, you will not be able to interact with other participants during the session.
System Requirements
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Requirements for Successful Completion
To successfully complete this activity, participants must:
- Register for and participate in the webinar
- Complete the activity evaluation
- Claim credit
A certificate will be available in the ACOOG learning center (under transcripts) when the session is over AND you complete the evaluation.
Commercial Support
This activity is not commercially supported.
CME Accreditation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CME Credit Designation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this program for a maximum of 1 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACOG Cognate Credit(s)
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this activity for Category 1 College Cognate Credits. Maximum Cognates are equal to the number of maximum AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM . A reciprocity agreement with the AMA exists that allows AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM to be equivalent to ACOG Cognate Credits.
NPs, PAs & CNMs
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and Category 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as providing advanced practice CE content hours for applicants seeking renewal through continuing education credit.
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as Regular Category 1 CME for national certification maintenance.
The Certificate Maintenance Program of the American Midwifery Certification Board accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to satisfy its contact hours requirement.
All NPs, PAs, CNMs and other health professionals participating in this activity will receive a certificate of completion commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACOOG strongly recommends all non-physician health professionals check with their certification/licensing organizations to confirm credit reciprocity.
Disclaimer
This activity is offered by the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOOG) for educational purposes only. Every patient case is different, and physicians must rely on their medical knowledge, experience, and relationships with patients to make clinical decisions. This material is not intended to represent the best or only methods or procedures appropriate for the condition discussed; rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement or opinion of the authors or presenters, which may be helpful, or of interest to other practitioners. Physician judgment must remain central to the selection of diagnostic tests, management strategies, therapy options, and follow-up of a specific patient's medical condition.
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Grievances
Any registrant finding evidence that the continuing medical education program presented is inappropriate with regard to facilities, materials, content, or observes any unacceptable promotion by a commercial interest in the same room as the educational activity, whether by company representative or presenter, may submit a grievance in writing to ACOOG, PO Box 17598, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Unresolved issues regarding this activity will require a formal written complaint to the AOA Division of CME, 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
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Data Use
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Refunds
Refunds are not available for this educational product.