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Article evaluation

Title of article: Women in the Medicine

Evaluation:

1. Everything is relevant, although there are a few sections that either have very little or no writing for them, so it's difficult to be able read through smoothly.
2. This article is very non-biased. They only mention something being important when an author of the citation has stated so.
3. Some paragraphs, like Ancient Medicine, were very brief and did not go into enough detail.
4. A few of the links do not exist so they are highlighted in red. The others are intact.
5. A few facts are not cited and other people have made notes saying they need to add citations. I only checked a few of the citations as they used quite a bit. They used an organizations website and I thought the quiz said these are not good sources. Also a few of the pages have "moved."
6. As i mentioned before, there is one section that has absolutely no writing, it is blank, so this information is missing.
7. On the talk page, someone mentioned being highly focused on US. Also, conversations happened about adding images and citations, along with more information on some of the sections.
8. The article is part of five different WikiProjects and was also written for a class. I cannot find the rating of the article.
9. The Wiki article talked about a few similar people that we have, but it did not talk about how they viewed abortion or sex or religion or anything else, It only talked about the women and what they did. We went into more detail about the circumstances and views during that time

Article: Maud Forrester-Brown

There is only one sentence written in this article and it states that she is the first female orthopedic surgeon. I plan on adding more information on this woman. Where she went to school, accomplishments, and just generally more knowledge about her. OU library has access to a few articles about this woman. The resources I plan to use are below.

Bibliography

"Maud F. Forrester-Brown M.D., M.S." The British Medical Journal 1, no. 5690 (1970): 241. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20379376.

Farooq, S., Kang, S.-N., & Ramachandran, M. (2009). Sex, power and orthopaedics. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 102(4), 124–125. http://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2009.090011.

S., R. I., and O. R. N. "IN MEMORIAM." Bone & Joint Journal. August 01, 1970. Accessed October 10, 2017. http://bjj.boneandjoint.org.uk/content/52-B/3/578.

"‘I want to see the work’: Maud Forrester-Brown: inspiration and paradigm." Journal of Medical Biography. Accessed October 10, 2017. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1258/jmb.2007.007052#articleCitationDownloadContainer.

Adding to an article: The article only states that she is the first woman orthopaedic surgeon, as well as her birthday and death date. I plan to improve this article by including where she went to college and what for, where she previously worked, some information about her work that she has done, and groups she has been a part of.

Draft

Maud Forrester-Brown (1885–1970) was the first woman orthopaedic surgeon within Britain. She attended college for medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women. From 1907 to 1912, Maud studied forensic medicine and pathology, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1912, and a Master of Science degree in 1920. In addition to those degrees, she also completed a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1914, and began working in the medical field short after. She held positions in general practice such as being a house surgeon, where she worked for Sir Harold Stiles, another surgeon. Maud obtained a three year long scholarship in 1923 called the William Gissane Research Scholarship, allowing her to travel to orthopaedic clinics in the United States and Europe, and even translate medical journals to English so that they would be of use to many more individuals. Once back in England, Sir Harold Stiles recognized Maud's skills and offered her a job as resident surgeon at the Bath and Wessex Orthopaedic hospital in 1925. Her efforts while working at this hospital lead it to become widely known by improving its reputation in Orthopaedics. She began publishing medical journals as early as 1920. In her published work called "Results of Operations for Nerve Injury at the Edinburgh War Hospital," she wrote about surgeries she had completed and the results of the studies. One of the studies were tendon transplants, which she said had a 99% success rate in terms of restoring function to the damaged limb. In 1921, she chose to become part of the British Orthopaedic Association, which was established for orthopaedic surgeons who resided in Britain. After 16 years, she was appointed Secretary of the same organization. With her experience, she established children's hospitals in three different counties in England. She noticed the areas that were being neglected within the medical field and focused her research on those specialties, such as defects and deformities that were not being resolved until the children were older and stronger. She trained her own staff for the clinics and taught them her unique individual skills, which made her clinic stand out from the existing clinics of the time. To improve deformities of children, she convinced the schools to implement better seating and desks, and even collaborated with a shoe company to make shoes better fitted for the spine. This was also designed to prevent the deformities before they arose. In 1931, the Annual Meeting for the British Medical Association was held, which Maud was a member of for over 50 years, and she was appointed Secretary. Seven years later, in 1938, the association decided to appoint her vice-president of the Orthopaedics section. From 1948-1949, she was a member of the Executive Committee within the British Orthopaedics Association. She retired at the age of 65 in 1951, and ten years later was given the title of Emeritus Fellow, which allowed her to retain the title she held before retirement. Even in retirement, she still visited hospitals and clinics, and continued to do research and publish her results.

Published Work

Results Of Operations For Nerve Injury At The Edinburgh War Hospital.

Posture as a Factor in Health and Disease.

Points from Letters: Horse-riding for the Disabled.

Early Treatment of Poliomyelitis.