Curated OER
Women in Medicine: Past and Future
Students explore the scientific enterprise in relation to the role of women in science as it has developed over the last 150 years.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Changing the Face of Medicine: Women Physicians
Online exhibition that features the accomplishments of women doctors, many who have changed the face of medicine and served as role models for women today. Includes learning activities, games, and lesson plans showing how the human body...
Soylent Communications
Elizabeth Blackwell, m.d.
Read about the life and accomplishments of Elizabeth Blackwell, educated at Geneva Medical College and the first woman doctor in the U.S.
Historica Canada
History by the Minute: Midwife
As part of a video series, this clip dramatizes the importance of the midwife in Canadian history. Learn about the long history of these invaluable women, and their role in a new land. As time passed, women's hospitals and birthing rooms...
Other
4000 Years of Women in Science
A site that celebrates the place of women in scientific research since history began.
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Virginia Apgar
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a review of Ms. Apgar's life accomplishments including her most well known development of the Apgar Score system, which determines whether a newborn infant needs special attention to stay alive.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Elizabeth Blackwell
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910 CE), the first woman doctor in the United States.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Virginia Apgar
At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."