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How long is your digestive system? How fast does your heart beat? Kids ages 5 to 12 will learn the answers to these questions and more at Broken Arrow Library’s interactive health fair from 10 a.m. to noon on July 18.

Children will have the opportunity to visit interactive booths, put together a giant floor puzzle of the human body, color at the coloring station and tour a real-life ambulance.

Located at 300 W. Broadway, the library is offering the health fair to complement the traveling exhibition “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” which is on display through July 24 at Central Library, Fourth Street and Denver Avenue, in downtown Tulsa.

Since the mid-1800s when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in America, women have made enormous strides in every area of medicine and have achieved success in work once considered unsuitable for women.

The traveling exhibition spotlights the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the specialty they chose. The exhibition includes interactive kiosks providing educational activities, information about medical careers and biographies of outstanding women physicians.

Developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office, the traveling exhibition was made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, with support from the American Medical Women’s Association. Tulsa City-County Library and the OU School of Community Medicine collaborated to bring the exhibit to Tulsa.

For more information about the children’s health fair, contact the Broken Arrow Library at 251-5359. For more information about “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit, call 596-7977 or visit www.tulsalibrary.org.

Tulsa City-County Library was one of 61 libraries from across the U.S. selected to host “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” an interactive, multimedia traveling exhibition honoring the lives and achievements of American women in medicine – past and present.

In collaboration with the OU School of Community Medicine, Tulsa City-County Library is hosting the exhibit through July 24 at Central Library, Fourth Street and Denver Avenue, on the second floor. “Changing the Face of Medicine” features stories from a rich diversity of women physicians from around the nation and highlights the broad range of medicine that women have practiced. The exhibition includes interactive kiosks providing educational activities, information about medical careers and biographies of outstanding women physicians.

To complement the exhibit, Tulsa City-County Library has planned a free all-day workshop for girls ages 10 to 18 who are considering medical careers. The workshop “Women in Health Careers: Exploring the Possibilities” will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday at Central Library in Aaronson Auditorium.

Ebony Skillens, health careers coordinator, Northeast Oklahoma Area Health Education Center, will lead this interactive workshop. Attendees will explore medical careers that offer a hands-on approach to health care and participate in an exciting who-done-it medical mystery. Guest speakers include Nicole Washington, D.O., assistant professor, psychiatry department, OU School of Community Medicine. Preregistration is required. Class size is limited. Call 596-7940 by Monday to register.

In addition to the workshop, Tulsa City-County Library will offer a free health fair just for kids from 10 a.m. to noon on July 18 at the Broken Arrow Library, 300 W. Broadway. Kids ages 5-12 will visit fun interactive booths, put together a giant floor puzzle of the human body, color at the coloring station and tour a real-life ambulance.

While you’re at the library, make sure you check out some books to learn more about women physicians and their contributions to the practice of medicine. Titles include “Women in Medicine” by Jacqueline C. Kent, “American Women of Medicine” by Russell Roberts, “Extraordinary Women of Medicine” by Darlene R. Stille and “Women and Medicine” by Beatrice Levin. Ask your librarian to recommend other titles or visit the library’s online catalog at http://opac.tulsalibrary.org.

The traveling exhibition “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” was developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The American Medical Women’s Association provided additional support.

For more information about the exhibit or programming, call 596-7977 or visit the library’s Web site at www.tulsalibrary.org.