History of OB/Gyn
Commonly known as "The Father of Gynecology". This man conducted research on enslaved women without anesthesia. He operated under the guise that black people did not feel pain.
Who is Marion Sims?
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Black women have a pregnancy related mortality ratio ____ times higher than white women.
What is five?
There are 5.7% of these individuals in the medical field and only 3% are black women.
What is black physicians?
This woman debunked the myth that women have physical limitations during menstruation.
Who is Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi?
This black woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Her cancer cells (referred to as HeLa cells) were used to study the effects of drugs, hormones, viruses, etc w/o use of human subjects.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This theory suggests that black women experience earlier deterioration of health because of the cumulative impact of exposure to psychosocial, economic, and environmental stressors.
What is weathering?
This number is the percentage of resident physicians who identified as black in the 2019 statistics on diversity in medicine.
What is 5%?
This women reduced the infant mortality rate in the 1900s by working in poor neighborhoods and educating mothers on hygiene and setting up clean milk stations.
Who is Dr. Sara Josephine Baker?
These are three black women who were Dr. Sim's fistula patients. They endured the experimentation of his surgical technique to repair postpartum fistulas.
Who is Lucy, Betsey and Anarcha?
This ethnicity has the highest rates of preterm birth.
What is black women?
This percentage represents the amount of board certified REI physicians.
What is 2%
This women invented the sanitary belt.
Who is Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner?
This black woman was the first black president of American Medical Women's Association.
Who is Dr. Roselynn Epps?
When all other things are equal [age, marital status, prenatal care, her education level and that of her partner, and neighborhood poverty level], this factor has been an underlying contributor to disparities.
What is racism?
This OBGyn subspecialty has the lowest proportion of African American fellows.
What is reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI)?
She was the first African American woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons.
Who is Helen Octavia Dickens?
This is a Greek physician who wrote the oldest surviving medical text by a woman. It discussed gynecologic exams and treatment of STIs.
Who is Metrodora?
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Preterm birth rates are _____ for non-Hispanic Black women who have higher educational attainment than for non-Hispanic White, Asian, or Hispanic women with lower educational attainment.
What is higher?
True or false: Some studies show that there is higher patient satisfaction, better patient adherence to health care guidelines, and a reduction in infant mortality when black patients have black physicians.
True
She was the first contestant of color on Jeopardy and the first black person in the US to become board certified in maternal fetal medicine.
Who is Dr. Yvonne Thornton?