SCHEDULE for events during the Changing the Face of Medicine exhibition,
Aug. 23–Oct. 6, 2006. Part of the HSC Libraries’ 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Changing The Face Of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, a new traveling exhibition focusing on American women’s centuries-long struggle to gain access to medical education and to work in the medical specialty of their choice, opens Aug. 30 at the UF HSC Library in Gainesville. Although the exhibit focuses on women physicians, the HSC Libraries invite viewers to discover the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced all areas of health science and healthcare.
The exhibition arrives Aug. 23 amidst the 50th Anniversary celebrations for the HSC Libraries, colleges of Medicine and Nursing, and the Office of the Sr. Vice President for Health Affairs. During the exhibition period, the Library has planned several events celebrating the increasing diversity of the health professions and involving participants from all six HSC colleges. All events listed below are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, August 30: Opening Celebration for Exhibition
3pm: Ribbon-cutting, welcoming remarks from Faith Meakin and Rebecca Pauly, MD, honored as a ‘Local Legend’ within the exhibition. (Tours available from 3–8pm)
4-5pm: Reception, food & drinks on Library 1st floor, by exhibition
5-6:30pm: Deans’ Roundtable, PHHP Auditorium (theme: The Changing Face of Health Science – Deans on Diversity In Their Professions.) HSC College Deans will speak briefly on changes to their professions over the last 50 years, particularly regarding the rise and prominence of women.
Friday, September 8: Keynote speech
3pm: Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of Michigan, speaks on Gynecological Surgery and Public Controversy: Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones on trial, 1892. In the MSB Auditorium, followed by a light reception at the Library.
Tuesday, September 12: Gainesville Women’s Health Center Panel Discussion
Mary Ann Burg, director of UF’s Women's Health Research Center, will moderate a panel discussion on Whatever Happened to the Women's Health Movement?, with speakers drawn from the original founders of the Gainesville Women’s Health Center, including Byllye Avery, Betsy Randall-David, Randi Cameron, Marilyn Mesh and others who worked at the GWHC.
Noon, HSC: Avery and Randall-David will both speak, offering historical and sociopolitical perspectives on women's influence on health care (delivery/training, etc.) – lunch will be provided.
3:00-4:30pm, Reitz Union, rm. 361: panel discussion, followed by a reception.
Tuesday, September 19: HSC Talk @ Noon
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Historian and Health Science Center Archivist, will speak on Women and the Health Center.
Wednesday, September 20: Healthcare Career Fair
9am-3pm: The HSC Libraries and the UF Center for Precollegiate Education & Training will host a healthcare career fair for students from Gainesville high schools. Scheduled events include a demonstration of ‘Stan’ the Human Patient Simulator; interaction with HSC students discussing their paths ‘From High School to Here’; and several ‘hands-on’ demonstrations from staff in various fields – ‘This is what I do and why I love it.’
Tuesday, September 26: HSC Talk @ Noon
Donna Parker, MD, UF College of Medicine Assistant Dean for Minority Cultural Affairs and Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, will speak on African-American Women in Medicine, closing out September as the AMA-sponsored ‘Women in Medicine Month’.
Friday, October 6: Exhibition closes, as National Medical Librarians’ Month begins.
- Also on display in the Gainesville HSC Library during the exhibition’s run will be the following:
– A new series of RxEAD posters, featuring trailblazing women from each of the six colleges, including Vivian Filer, College of Nursing’s first African-American student and a trailblazer in the community for nursing and literacy, and Ann Harwood-Nuss, MD, VP for Educational Affairs, College of Medicine Jacksonville, author of a major textbook in Emergency Medicine
– An exhibit on ‘reflective writing’ created by the Shands Arts In Medicine program, featuring poems and essays from medical students. - – Exhibit: The Changing Face of Medical Education at the University of Florida College of Medicine. This exhibit will include a montage of colorized composite class photographs that show increasing diversity in the medical school classes, as well as quotes from discussions among current medical students and alumni, highlighted with photographs, that show the difference in the medical education experience.
Related topics from the History of Medicine Lunchtime Lecture Series (noon, C1-15):
August 24: Sarah Vinson, Confronting Segregation in the Short Course
September 6: Todd Savitt, Entering a White Profession
September 14: Dr. Richard Reynolds, A Mayo Clinic: Rural Health Care in Florida
October 12: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Florida Women in Medicine to 1956
CREDITS
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, Md., and the American Library Association, Chicago, Ill., organized the exhibition with support from the NLM, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, and the American Medical Women’s Association. The traveling exhibition is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the NLM from 2003–2005.
The Libraries worked to acquire ‘Changing the Face of Medicine’ with an impressive collection of HSC, UF&Shands and community groups, including: the Office of the Senior Vice President, Health Affairs; all six HSC college deans and the CEO of Shands HealthCare; several university and community-based women's health and women's studies organizations; the Alachua County Medical Society; and the UF, Santa Fe Community College and Alachua County libraries.
More information on the exhibit is available on the National Library of Medicine website at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
