The chapter outlines the skills required to provide basic family planning care: contraceptive counseling; pregnancy options counseling; advocacy; screening for pregnancy intention, intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion; furthering of professional identity formation; and ethical reasoning. It describes justifications for their inclusion in medical school curricula. To increase the likelihood that the required knowledge and skills will not only be taught but also learned by all graduates, family planning educators need to join other educators in medical education reform, specifically the movement toward outcomes-based education, programmatic assessment and the fluent adoption of active-learning strategies. They should also continue to expand exposure to the more advanced skills required for abortion and contraception as to enhance student learning of basic skills, and positively impact attitudes toward patients and providers. Finally, it reviews meaningful opportunities for mentoring students and providing the role-modeling that nurtures respect for and interest in the field.