Physician career from AMA website -- http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/40/physician0809.pdf

Good list of links about health careers from AMA website http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/education-careers/careers-health-care.shtml

ExploreHealth.org   http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/index.aspx

Medical Library Association careers info:  A Career Beyond the Cutting Edge.  http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/career/eng_cutting_edge_05.pdf   -- There’s also a Spanish version http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/career/spn_cutting_edge_05.pdf

Two physicians are featured in the national Changing the Face of Medicine exhibit:

Dr. Marjorie S. Sirridge -- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_296.html

Dr. U. Diane Buckingham  -- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_47.html

 This site is inspired by the National Library of Medicine/American Library Association traveling exhibit -- Changing the Face of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/

This exhibit, sponsored by the academic medical libraries of the University of Kansas Medical Center,  Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City will be in Kansas City on October 3- November 11, 2009. 

See further information at http://library.kumc.edu/womeninmedicine/

1) Kansas City Women Physicians  --  by the Metropolitan Medical Society.  http://www.metromedkc.org/?page=women_in_medicine

2) Doctors wanted: women need not apply. Adapted from original article written by Sharon E. Wood, The Goldfinch 9, No. 4 (April 1988). Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa.
© State Historical Society of Iowa   http://www.iptv.org/IowaPathways/myPath.cfm?ounid=ob_000274

3)  Muskogen’s first woman doctor. Reprinted with permission from the Muskegon Chronicle http://www.hackley.org/about/history/womans_doctor.php

4) Women’s History – Elizabeth Blackwell. Gale Research, 1997. http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/blackwell_e.htm  

 5) JAMA book review includes photographs. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/300/18/2182.pdf

6) Who are some of the early women pioneer doctors in medicine? http://lane.stanford.edu/howto/index.html?id=_532

7) Mary Edwards Walker – Civil War Doctor – written and produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/walker.htm

8) Thayer ER.  First in their class: Wisconsin’s pioneering women physicians.  http://www.prdrsteve.com/portals/0/Examples/womendocs.pdf Includes an entertaining incident of a woman physician’s colleague published her obituary (long before her death) so that her patients would move to another physician. 

9) Sirridge MS & Pfannenstiel BR. Women Physicians' Autobiographies.  http://www.med.umkc.edu/teams/cml/womendrs.html  This is a bibliography of women autobiographies -- both books and journal articles. SEE ALSO the tab for local resources.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/scrubs/index?pn=index

The following links about the founders of Childrens' Mercy Hospital were suggested by Brenda Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA, AHIP, Library Manager.

Children's Mercy begins with two compassionate sisters (CMH&C site)

http://www.childrensmercy.org/content/view.aspx?id=1744

NEW -- Leaving a Legacy:  Follow the Footprints of the Berry Sisters in Kansas City

http://www.childrensmercy.org/BerrySistersMap.asp

CMH&C History with photos of the founding sisters

http://www.childrensmercy.org/Content/view.aspx?id=232

Women in Health Sciences - Biographies: Alice Berry Graham (1850-1913) and Katherine Berry Richardson (1858-1933)  [Washington University in St. Louise School of Medicine site] http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mowihsp/bios/GrahamRichardson.htm