Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals30 Apr 2021

FFP 362 | How Effective Are Fertility Awareness-Based Methods Really? | Dr. Marguerite Duane

Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA is a board-certified family physician and adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. She is co-founder and executive director of FACTS, the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science. She is trained as a Creighton Model, FEMM and NeoFertility medical consultant as well as a TeenSTAR educator. She also works with Modern Mobile Medicine, a direct primary care house calls-based medical practice that serves patients of all ages in the DC area.

Dr. Duane received her medical degree with recognition in primary care from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. She has previously served on the boards of both the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC). Dr. Duane balances her career as a teacher and Family Physician, with her role as a mother and wife.

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Topics discussed in today's episode:

Why is Dr. Duane as passionate now about FAM than when she discovered it years ago
Dr. Duane's thoughts on how FAM is the only birth control method with no side effects
The philosophy of allopathic medicine
How doctors are trained about FAM and what women can expect when going to their female doctor
The effectiveness of Fertility Awareness Methods
The different methods of Fertility Awareness
Dr. Duane's thoughts on the challenges for women concerned with the effectiveness
How to use the methods correctly
What is most commonly quoted when it comes to FAM

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