![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1024x576.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Catalin Mateas (M4), alongside Dr. Reilly Bealer<\/a> (PGY-2), Dr. Shilpa Darivemula<\/a> (GOGM Fellow), and Dr. Alexandria Kraus<\/a> (MFM), has been awarded the Academy of Educators\u2019 Kathleen Rao Scholarship Grant for their innovative project proposal,\u00a0Designing and Evaluating a Hands-On Evidence-Based Workshop on Menstrual Health and Menstrual Advocacy for Medical Students.<\/em><\/p>\n The full project team includes: The project addresses a critical gap in clinical education: menstrual equity. Despite the prevalence of vaginal bleeding across the reproductive life course, menstrual health needs are often under-recognized in medical training. To bridge this gap, the team will conduct a menstrual health needs assessment and develop a practical, evidence-based workshop for preclinical students at the UNC School of Medicine.<\/p>\n The initiative aims to evaluate the current state of menstrual health education (MHE) at UNC through a needs assessment survey, deliver an interactive workshop to address identified gaps, and assess the impact of the intervention through post-workshop evaluations during the OB\/GYN clerkship.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catalin Mateas (M4), alongside Dr. Reilly Bealer (PGY-2), Dr. Shilpa Darivemula (GOGM Fellow), and Dr. Alexandria Kraus (MFM), has been awarded the Academy of Educators\u2019 Kathleen Rao Scholarship Grant for their innovative project proposal,\u00a0Designing and Evaluating a Hands-On Evidence-Based Workshop on Menstrual Health and Menstrual Advocacy for Medical Students. The full project team includes: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116513,"featured_media":6475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[162,147,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gog-fellowship","category-medical-education","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2025\/06\/KAO-GRANT-1-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Dr. Shilpa Darivemula, Dr. Alexandria Kraus, Dr. Reilly Bealer, & Catalin Mateas","category_details":[{"name":"GOG Fellowship","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/medical-education\/gog-fellowship\/"},{"name":"Medical Education","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/medical-education\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCatalin Mateas (M4), Dr. Reilly Bealer (PGY-2), Dr. Shilpa Darivemula, MD, MSCR (GOGM Fellow), Dr. Alexandria Kraus, MD, MMSc (MFM), Dr. Marcella Willis-Gray (Urogynecology), and Dr. Grace Trompeter, MD, MSPH (GOGM Fellow).<\/p>\n\n
![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Darivemula-Shilpa-headshot-264x300.jpg\")
\n“I was thrilled that our proposal was accepted! Given the current climate, it feels more important than ever to ensure all physicians in training understand menstrual health and menstrual equity. We are grateful to have the opportunity to create this pilot workshop,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Dr. Shilpa Darivemula.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n