PASS and LAS students: In this article, you’ll find a message from Dean Mondain regarding the available spots in DFGSM2 (second year of medical school) for the upcoming academic year. You’ll also find an update on the available spots in midwifery.
An Update on Places in Maieutics |
A Message from the Dean (School of Medicine) |
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The Montpellier Medical Sports Association (ASMM) is an organization founded about ten years ago with the goal of promoting sports among medical students in a friendly atmosphere. While this objective has remained unchanged over the years, the ASMM has evolved, notably by welcoming PACES (soon to be PASS-LAS) and midwifery students.Our association allows health sciences students to reconnect with sports—which are often neglected during their studies—in a friendly and relaxed setting. These moments are especially important for PACES/PASS/LAS students, who face considerable pressure regarding their entrance exams. The entire team is therefore there to listen to them, provide moral support, and offer a friendly outlet. This year’s goal is to open membership to other health-related programs, particularly students in physical therapy and dentistry.
Throughout the year, we hold two sessions per week: one exclusively for PACES/PASS/LAS students and the other for medical and midwifery students. The content of our sessions varies based on the members’ preferences. Sessions often consist of exercises focused on endurance or strength training, as well as a more recreational component featuring team sports like ULTIMATE.
We also organize activities outside of class: canoeing, beach volleyball, trampoline, pétanque, laser tag, indoor soccer…
Joining our association gives students access to our sessions and sports events all year round. Membership costs 5€ for PACES, LAS, PASS, and second- and third-year medical and midwifery students. Registration is free for students in higher years. You can sign up at any time throughout the year, either online via the Pumpkin app or in person at the start of a session or before an event: it couldn’t be easier—just download the app and create an account using the code ASMM.
A new executive board is elected internally each year. It is composed primarily of third-year medical students, as well as one midwifery student. The current executive board consists of:
The current health crisis has led us to rethink our sessions, particularly by no longer offering team sports. We have also divided participants into groups of 10, then 6, to limit the spread of the virus and protect our members. Safety measures (wearing masks, using hand sanitizer) are also strictly enforced during our sessions and events. We also prioritize outdoor activities, such as our running sessions. We’re also working with partner sports facilities to offer small-group activities to our members, which they can enjoy whenever they want (bowling, rock climbing, escape rooms, laser tag, etc.). We’ve also launched live yoga sessions on Instagram, which help balance student well-being with the need to limit group activities.
Instagram: tim_asmm
Facebook: tim asmm
Website: ASMM Association
As of October 30, 2020, France is once again under a nationwide lockdown. This has impacted the Faculty’s operations, but unlike during the last lockdown, the Faculty will not be closing its doors. Please find the guidelines regarding these new operating procedures below.
Last updated: 11/05/20 – 9:38 a.m.
Unlike during the first lockdown, the university will not close its doors.
Services will continue to be provided in person, and some service counters will be open by appointment (please contact the relevant department to schedule an appointment).
During remote work, services will continue to operate as usual, and all departments can be reached by email (see the directory below).
After a temporary closure to reorganize their visitor policies, the UM university libraries will reopen on Thursday, November 5, 2020, subject to certain conditions:
⚡ For reservations made by email, please indicate the reason for your visit: borrowing/returning materials or working on-site. Please note: Written confirmation of your appointment (sent by email) is required to enter the library. This, along with your student ID and the travel exemption certificate (available byclicking HERE), will serve as proof of your visit.
⚠️ A limited number of spots for individual study on campus are reserved for D4 students preparing for their ECNi exams, as well as for PASS/PACES students ⚠️
Due to the lockdown, extended hours in the evenings and on weekends have been suspended. However, all services remain available within the university libraries, provided that health measures and protective measures and equipment are followed: access to materials, use of self-service computers, printing/copying/scanning, Wi-Fi, interlibrary loans, and unrestricted borrowing and returns, etc. Librarians are available to answer questions online at boomerang.biu-montpellier.fr
⚡ More information on how study rooms will operate during the lockdown will be posted in this article soon.
The format of thesis defenses has been modified: only the candidate will be permitted to defend their thesis in person, before the committee, in the traditional Salle des Actes of the Historic Building. A personalized exemption certificate allowing travel will be provided to the candidate.
📧 More information will be provided at a later date via email to the residents concerned.
Semiology courses have been suspended until further notice in Montpellier and Nîmes.
The DFASM1, 2, and 3 clinical rotations will continue as scheduled; the affected hospital students will continue their training in full within the hospital departments.
For all students who may come into contact with patients infected with SARS-CoV-19, it is important to note that strict adherence to preventive measures during their clinical rotations is an effective way to protect themselves against the risk of infection.
The continuation of health services is currently under discussion and review by the Regional Education Office. More information will be available soon.
⚡ More information on how internships and the health services will operate during the lockdown will be posted in this article soon.
In-person exams will proceed as scheduled. Students will be provided with a personalized travel exemption certificate. Details regarding the exam arrangements will be communicated directly to the affected students via email 📧
The interregional ECN exams (DFASM3) will take place as scheduled on November 20, 2020; the exams will be administered remotely. The exam schedule and organizational details will be sent via email 📧
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Every year, the Pink October campaign helps raise awareness about breast cancer screening among as many people as possible. Our midwifery students and the student organizations in this field in Montpellier and Nîmes—AMESF and CNESF—are particularly committed to this cause.
Every year, AMESF participates in Pink October by organizing several initiatives. The goal? To raise awareness among students at the University of Montpellier about breast cancer screening. All of this, of course, while raising as much money as possible for Ruban Rose, an organization dedicated to the fight against breast cancer.
The first step in prevention is self-examination! To raise awareness among students about best practices, AMESF set up a booth at the School of Medicine (ADV) and the School of Sports Science (STAPS) on October 6, 7, and 8. Atthe STAPS department, the booth was organized in collaboration with PESAP, the student association for the Master’s program in Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity.
The program aimed to teach students the proper techniques for self-examination using a demonstration model loaned by the University Department of Midwifery. Results: Nearly 300 students were educated on the topic!
And for those who are a bit shy, or for those who weren't able to attend, AMESF has thought of everything with detailed posts on their social media accounts.
View this post on Instagram
AMESF’s work doesn’t stop there. In fact, the association actively supports Ruban Rose, an organization dedicated to the fight against breast cancer, by donating the funds raised during its annual event.
This year, the organization held a raffle in addition to its usual booth selling treats. Thanks to their dedication and the many raffle contributors, the organization has already raised more than 500 euros, all of which will be donated to the Ruban Rose organization! This is a real success for our students, who have surpassed last year’s donation total.
Today, the organization has set a new goal: to raise more than 650 euros in donations for Ruban Rose! To help them reach this goal, you can buy a raffle ticket for just 2 €.
➡️You can buy raffle tickets:
📌At the association's office during office hours (1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.)
📌Through the Pumpkin ticket office:
Tickets cost €2, and the drawing will take place on October 30.
Like its counterpart in Montpellier, the Nîmes midwives’ association is also getting involved in Pink October. Several initiatives are being organized to benefit the League Against Cancer.
Starting on October 1, the CNESF joined forces with the CCC (Corpo Carabins Crocodiles) to carry out the “Les Chauves d’Octobre Rose” campaign.
The goal is twofold: to collect financial donations for the Ligue contre le Cancer, as well as in-kind donations in the form of long strands of hair for the organization Fake Hair Don’t Care. The latter will use the strands to make wigs for patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Excerpt from the Corpo Carabin Crocodiles’ stories about the “Shaved Heads” operation in collaboration with the CNESF
No fewer than 8 volunteers agreed to have their hair cut on campus, raising more than 420 euros for the League!
Alongside this event, the CNESF posted several prevention-related messages on social media. To raise awareness among as many people as possible, informational posters were published, along with a questionnaire from the League on breast cancer screening. Feel free to test your knowledge—there are prizes to be won:
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Finally, the CNESF invites you to show your support for the Pink October campaign by purchasing a beautiful pin created especially for the occasion.
Priced at €2, it will allow you to show your support for the fight against breast cancer while doing a good deed: all proceeds are donated in full to the Ligue contre le Cancer!
We've already raised 60 euros! If you'd like to buy a pin, don't wait—there are only about ten left in stock at the CNESF office…
The year 2020 and its unique circumstances did nothing to slow down our students’ efforts. Thanks to the joint efforts of student organizations in Nîmes and Montpellier, nearly 1,000 euros were raised for cancer charities.
In addition, several hundred people were made aware of how to prevent this disease thanks to the various posters and visuals created by the organizations.
We are especially proud of our students and would like to thank all the generous donors who contributed to the fundraisers organized by AMESF and CNESF.
Congratulations to everyone!
Due to the current health situation, the implementation of the Ministry of Higher Education’s circular requires that classroom capacity be reduced by 50% at the Montpellier campus. More information in this article.
Update as of October 23, 2020: Like the Montpellier site, the Nîmes site has just been placed under an enhanced alert status.
The measures are therefore being extended to the Nîmes site. See the relevant paragraphs below.
Lectures are held in person, with the number of students in attendance limited and the maximum capacity of 50% of seats occupied strictly enforced.
PASS / PACES
PASS: Lectures will be held in person, with attendance limited to a maximum of 50% of the room’s capacity, with every other seat left empty. The lectures will be available on Moodle later today.
PACES: Lectures are already available online.
PASS: Two lecture halls are available on the ADV campus and one lecture hall on the Flahault campus; students who cannot find seats will be able to access the courses on Moodle. Access to the lecture hall will be restricted once all seats are filled.
PACES: Lectures are already available online.
Undergraduate Program
A survey will be conducted the day before classes begin to determine whether you will attend in person. Other students will be able to follow the course via Zoom or Moodle after it has been recorded, if possible.
Lectures are held in person, with attendance limited to a maximum of 50% of the room’s capacity, and with every other seat left empty.
Students who are unable to find a seat will be able to access the courses on Moodle.
Graduate School
Lectures are held in person with a limit on the number of students present (100 per lecture hall or 25 per classroom for the ADV Health Campus, and 50% capacity for UPM classrooms and lecture halls). We are therefore offering a hybrid attendance model. You will receive information specific to your course unit (UE) or module (MI) from program administrators or university administrative offices. Students who are unable to attend in-person classes will have access to recordings made available as soon as possible for DFASM1 and DFASM2 cohorts. For UE1 and UE10 of DFASM3, a Zoom link will be sent to you.
For students currently enrolled in the MIC program, the structure remains the same.
Lectures are held in person, with a maximum of 50% of the room’s capacity, with students occupying every other seat.
Students who are unable to find a seat will be able to access the courses on Moodle.
For the "best-of" events, large-capacity venues or auditoriums will be used to allow for in-person attendance with attendance tracking.
Maieutics
When it is not possible to accommodate the entire class due to capacity limits reduced to 50%, classes will be conducted as follows:
After-school programs will take place in the after-school program rooms, with no more than 50% of seats occupied.
PASS / PACES
PASS: Tutorials are held in person with a maximum of 50% of the classroom’s capacity, with every other seat left empty. Only students enrolled in the scheduled group will be allowed to enter the classroom. You must therefore strictly adhere to the group to which you have been assigned.
An ED session will be recorded and posted on MOODLE once all sessions for that ED have been completed (i.e., at the beginning of the following week).
PACES: Tutorials are held in person with a maximum of 50% of the classroom’s capacity, with every other seat left empty. Only students enrolled in the scheduled group will be allowed to enter the classroom. You must therefore strictly adhere to the group to which you have been assigned.
If the maximum capacity of the room is reached, any additional students will be denied entry but will be able to watch a recording of the session on Moodle.
PASS: Two lecture halls are available on the ADV campus and one lecture hall on the Flahault campus; students who cannot find seats will be able to access the courses on Moodle. Access to the lecture hall will be restricted once all seats are filled.
PACES: Tutorials are held in person with a maximum of 50% of the classroom’s capacity, with every other seat left empty. Only students enrolled in the scheduled group will be allowed to enter the classroom. You must therefore strictly adhere to the group to which you have been assigned.
If the maximum capacity of the room is reached, any additional students will be denied entry but will be able to watch a recording of the session on Moodle.
Undergraduate Program
Lectures will be held in lecture halls whenever possible to allow as many students as possible to attend in person. You will be notified of the guidelines via email through your academic offices.
Tutorials are held in person, with a maximum of 50% of the room's capacity and every other seat occupied.
Students who are unable to find a seat will have access to the courses on Moodle or, depending on the situation, may take the course remotely if a Zoom link is included in the digital learning platform’s schedule.
The Open Courses are held in person for the entire group. The layout of the rooms ensures compliance with the 50% maximum capacity rule.
Graduate School
Starting the week of October 12, classes and extracurricular activities will be held in a hybrid format—50% in person and 50% remotely via Zoom—for all grade levels. This link will be sent to you before classes begin.
Tutorial sessions are held in person, with a maximum of 50% of the room’s capacity, and with every other seat left empty.
Students who are unable to find a seat will have access to the courses on Moodle or, depending on the situation, may take the course remotely if a Zoom link is included in the digital learning platform’s schedule.
Maieutics
When it is not possible to accommodate the entire class due to capacity limits reduced to 50%, classes will be conducted as follows:
Classrooms and lecture halls will be filled to 50% of their maximum capacity. There will be no exceptions to this rule, and tutoring sessions will be offered via Zoom for students who are unable to attend in person.
Tutoring sessions: The maximum capacity of classrooms and lecture halls is one seat out of every two. There will be no exceptions to this rule, and tutoring sessions will be offered via Zoom for students who cannot access the classrooms.
The sessions are recorded and uploaded to Google Drive.
These measures are subject to change: please follow the Tutoring Office's instructions first and foremost.
The capacity of the workrooms is limited to one person out of every two.
Montpellier - ADV
Montpellier - Flahault (PASS/PACES only)
Montpellier - BH
Nîmes - Carémeau
A COVID-19 cluster was recently identified within the Faculty. It currently involves second- and third-year medical students in Montpellier. Click here for all the measures related to this cluster.
Due to the current public health situation and the very high number of students who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the DFGSM2 class at the Montpellier campus, the decision has been made to cancel ALL in-person classes for the DFGSM2-3 and Ma2-3 programs at the Montpellier campus ( lectures, tutorials, and lab sessions) effective Wednesday, September 16, 2020 throughWednesday, September 30, 2020, inclusive.
DFGSM2 classes will continue to be held in person at the Nîmes campus, where they will be recorded and then uploaded to Moodle so that students can access them.
Any confirmed COVID-19 exposure must be reported to your academic affairs office. Find the complete procedure to follow in the event of suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 here.
The Faculty administration reminds everyone that masks must be worn in ALL university facilities, both indoors and outdoors, including the university library and study rooms. This is essential to protecting everyone’s health.
Below you will find the complete procedure regarding confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19: reporting, who to contact, and recommendations. This procedure applies to all students at the faculty as well as all administrative and teaching staff.
The processing of personal data is governed by the regulations currently in effect, as specified on the ARS website:
The goal is to gain as accurate a picture as possible of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among students in the UFR so that, if necessary, we can adjust teaching methods and prevent these infections as much as possible, both during class periods and during internships. Finally, this program will help protect you and your loved ones.
The Faculty administration thanks you in advance for your essential contribution to the implementation of these principles and remains available to answer any questions you may have.
Welcome—or welcome back—to the Faculty! Our doors are finally reopening for our students. Below are the start dates and details for the new semester for our various programs.
Due to the health crisis, we would like to remind you that masks are required on all faculty premises. We also ask our students and visitors to follow safety guidelines. Hand sanitizer is available at the entrance to all our locations.
>> AFGSU from August 31 to September 10, 2020.
>> Start of hospital internships: September 7, 2020
>> Nursing internship from August 31 to September 17, 2020.
Following our meeting with Dis-Lalie, the Montpellier-based association for the speech-language pathology program, this week we’re meeting with the CNESF, the association for the midwifery program in Nîmes!
The Nîmes Midwifery Students’ Association is a nonprofit organization under the French Law of 1901 whose purpose is to represent midwifery students in Nîmes and to give them a voice within federations such as the ANESF (National Association of Midwifery Students, our program-specific federation) and the AGEM (General Association of Montpellier Students, our regional federation). It also aims to listen to midwifery students in Nîmes, advise them as much as possible, and defend their rights and interests. Our association helps energize the student life of its members by organizing solidarity and prevention events, as well as social, athletic, and cultural events. Finally, it aims to enhance our skills as future healthcare professionals through access to continuing education.
We are working to expand our activities as much as possible through the association’s various divisions the association:
The Public Health Division has organized, for example, film screenings followed by coffee-and-conversation discussions to explore topics such as female genital mutilation or anonymous adoption, particularly following screenings of films in partnership with the Sémaphore in Nîmes.
As part of the annual awareness campaign for breast cancer screening, we created a calendar for Pink October. It features prevention tips and information, and the money raised was donated to the League Against Cancer. We also participated in the Telethon alongside medical students.
Thanks to the growth of social media, we have created posters for global awareness days—such as the one created in collaboration with ANESF for World Contraception Day—and informational quizzes on various topics are also available. We’ve established a mentoring program where upperclassmen mentor students from different graduating classes, which we plan to expand further next year.
We organized festive and team-building events, including the end-of-year gala, which unfortunately could not take place. As we did last year, we continued to expand our babysitting network. As for AGEM and ANESF, we attend in person or remotely every board meeting and general assembly to represent the midwifery students of Nîmes in policy decisions.
Snack parties are held every month to raise funds for charities, to which we also donate children’s clothing and supplies.
Finally, we participated in PEPS Week, organized by Tutorat Santé Nîmes this year, at the student fair, as well as at the Faculty’s open house, to do our best to answer questions from prospective students.
In my opinion, this is a field you choose out of passion. The program is long and require a significant investment, particularly in the many internships. But Supporting couples, mothers, women, and even babies is what makes The diversity of our profession—and that’s what drew me to it. We do indeed have a broad range of expertise; whether in the private, public, or independent sectors, we can support women throughout their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period (provided there are no medical complications). We can also provide preventive gynecological care and contraception consultations. We sometimes face difficult situations, but the intense moments of life and emotion serve as a reminder of why we started this work in the first place.
The association, for its part, provides opportunities to get together—whether at the clubhouse or at events—and to learn through training programs offered by ANESF or AGEM. Members can also stay up to date on national news, which we share regularly. For those who want to get involved in student life, it’s a great way to thrive while working on your own projects and collaborating with other students.
Joining our association is, above all, a gesture of support. We represent midwifery students in the faculty’s student life. Joining allows you to stay informed about various events and connect with other associations within the faculty or outside of it. In fact, this results in membership in both AGEM and ANESF, which allows you to stay informed about discussions within these organizations and potentially make an impact by sharing your views on key issues. It’s an opportunity to take an active interest in the future of the profession and student life in the region, as well as to bring broader issues to light.
Membership is also the only way to vote at general meetings for the future teams that will represent you during the next terms. And on the fun side, membership gives you access to a whole host of partnerships that our fabulous VP of Partnerships has secured for us—from laser tag to products from Luneale, Fempo, and many others—all offering great discounts. Finally, we have partnerships with professional insurance providers that offer additional protection for students on internships.
Joining is very easy: just come to our association’s office on campus between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. (every day) and pay 7 euros—by check, cash, or even Lydia. We’ll give you a nice little membership card with our social media handles. You can join at any time throughout the year, but we close membership registration two weeks before the end-of-term General Assembly.
Unfortunately, given the current health situation, this year’s handover will take place remotely. We are in contact with the executive board members running for the 2020–2021 term and who are more motivated than ever. There are exciting projects on the horizon that we look forward to learning more about in detail. It’s with a slight twinge of sadness that we’re stepping down from this term, especially given the difficult end to the year, but we have complete confidence in the dedication of the incoming executive board. They are motivated young women with experience and a lot of enthusiasm—everything needed to succeed. We couldn’t have handed over this term with greater peace of mind than with such a wonderful new generation taking the reins!
Feel free to follow us on social media:
– Instagram: @CNESF
– Facebook: Nîmes Midwifery Students' Association
– Twitter: @CNESF2
Last week, we met with the Association Carabins Montpelliéraine to learn more about student life for medical students. Today, Salomé Duteurtre, the Student Vice Dean, is answering our questions!
ADEMMOOS is the Association of Student Representatives from Montpellier-Nîmes in the fields of Medicine, Speech-Language Pathology, Orthoptics, and Midwifery. It brings together nearly 40 elected student representatives from the various programs.
We work every day to:
Above all, our year is shaped by our student advocacy efforts.
As such, we are represented on two major councils within the faculty:
Our goal, therefore, is to give students a voice, often by conducting surveys that allow us to carefully gather their opinions and positions on the various issues that arise during the academic year.
In addition, we are also carrying out a number of projects to improve our training conditions. For example, several of our initiatives focus on health promotion:
We also support initiatives aimed at enhancing student life on campus. We participate in Open House events and European Heritage Days to lead tours and engage with the public. In addition, we help design and develop living and workspaces.
We keep students informed about the latest news from the faculty; for example, during the COVID-19 crisis, we kept them regularly updated on the situation and changes to our programs.
We help medical interns choose their specialties through the Forum du Futur Interne (FFI), which we organize in collaboration with the Languedoc-Roussillon Interns' Union.
Finally, we work with all of the faculty’s student organizations:
Our organization promotes several things:
Furthermore, students are not required to make any financial contributions. Simply being enrolled in the UFR allows students to participate in all the activities offered by our association.
Our association's executive board is made up of students—whether or not they are elected UFR representatives—who are appointed for a one-year term from October to October to coordinate the team of student representatives.
The 2020–2021 term of office will begin this summer: please feel free to contact the current board if you’re interested in any of the positions!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions about student representation!
Marie-Anne GILLAIN was born in 1773 in Montreuil, near Versailles.
She was sent to boarding school with the Sisters of the Visitation.
During the Revolution, she took refuge in Etampes with a relative who was the mother superior of the Hospitalières de l’Hôtel-Dieu.
There she attended the surgeon’s lectures and served for two and a half years, from 1793 to 1796, as a hospital volunteer—that is, as a layperson who volunteered her services to the poor and sick.
In 1797, she returned to Versailles to marry Louis BOIVIN, deputy head of the National Domains office.
She became pregnant early on, but was suddenly widowed in 1798 at the age of 25, left without any means of support and with a young daughter to raise.
She then decided to put to use the knowledge she had gained from the surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Étampes and enrolled in the Midwifery School at the Maternity Hospital in 1799.
In 1800, she graduated and left for Versailles to be reunited with her daughter and pursue her career.
In 1801, following the death of her daughter, she obtained permission from Marie-Louise Lachapelle to return to the Maternity Hospice
In 1803, she was appointed chief supervisor of the breastfeeding section. She held this position for eleven years, until 1814. During this long tenure, she took the opportunity to attend the lectures of her patron, the surgeons at the Maternity Hospital (Baudelocque, then Dubois), and the chief physicians (Andry, and especially Chaussier), from whom she gathered observations and lessons.
In 1812, she wrote and published *A Treatise on the Art of Childbirth*. The work was approved by the Ministry of the Interior, which included it among the textbooks given to graduates of the Maternity School.
In 1814, the position of supervisor that she held was eliminated, and she was dismissed with a severance payment equal to her annual salary, or 360 francs.
Starting in October, she was hired as a storekeeper and steward at the Poissy General Hospital, a position she held until January 1819, when the General Hospital was converted into a prison.
Little is known about this period of her life: Did she continue her obstetric practice despite her new, more administrative duties? Did she do so at the general hospital? Or with a private clientele? In any case, for a time she appears to have earned a comfortable annual salary of 1,200 francs—almost as much as the head midwife at the Maternity Hospital.
In 1818, she entered the Paris Medical Society’s competition anonymously, submitting a paper on internal uterine hemorrhages. She was awarded the medal.
On February1, 1819, she joined the Maison Royale de Santé in Paris as chief supervising midwife, with a modest salary of 350 francs per year.
In 1821, an opportunity for promotion arose following the death of Marie-Louise Lachapelle.
According to procedure, the General Council of the Hospices must submit to the Minister of the Interior a list of five female candidates to succeed the renowned midwife.
On November 14, 1821, the Council voted to approve a list with Marie-Anne Boivin at the top; she received 12 out of 12 votes in the first round of voting to select the top candidate.
A month and a half later, the Minister of the Interior endorsed the Council’s decision.
But the winner declined the position (or rather, resigned), forcing the board to propose another list. Why the refusal? All contemporary biographers attribute this decision to a public promise Marie-Anne Boivin is said to have made to her former patron never to replace her, even after her death. If that is the case, she kept her word, and another midwife, Madeleine Catherine Legrand, was appointed in 1822.
Marie-Anne Boivin therefore continued to practice at the Maison Royale de Santé, where she accumulated observations, publications, and honors.
In 1828, she presented a paper on spontaneous abortions, which was awarded a prize by the Bordeaux Medical Society.
In September 1835, at the age of 62, worn out and exhausted, she retired and urged the hospice board to grant her a pension. Finally, after suffering a first stroke that left her hemiplegic, she died in May 1841.
In 1902, one of the rooms in the renovated maternity ward was named after Marie-Anne Boivin.
She was born in 1563 on Boulevard Saint-Germain or in Mons to a family of doctors.
In 1594, she married Martin BOURSIER, a master surgeon and student of Ambroise PARÉ.
She finds herself without any means of support when her husband is enlisted in the king's army.
She quickly gained a reputation among the ladies of the court and delivered the queen's children six times.
She is paid 500 crowns for the birth of a boy and 300 for the birth of a girl.
It lost its prominence following the death of Marie de Bourbon-Montpensier, wife of Gaston d’Orléans, at the time of the birth of the Grande Mademoiselle.
According to the surgeons who performed the autopsy on the woman who had given birth, her death was attributed to placental debris remaining in the uterus, and Louise Bourgeois was subsequently accused of negligence.
At that time, there were few male obstetricians practicing, and they were trying to gain the upper hand over the midwives' guild.
Louise questions their competence by harshly criticizing the autopsy findings and the skills of the obstetricians; however, her response has the opposite effect of what she intended, as it ends up giving them publicity.
She was the first midwife to write a book on obstetrics, *Various Observations on Infertility, Miscarriage, Fertility, Childbirth, and Diseases of Women and Newborns*, published in 1609.
In this book, she points out that infertility in a couple can be caused by the man, even though—like the doctors of that era—she confuses the ability to procreate with sexual vigor.
She identified the role of malnutrition in fetal health, and she was the first to prescribe iron supplements to treat anemia.
She emphasizes the importance of anatomical knowledge for midwives and urges doctors to allow them to attend lectures and dissection sessions.
In 1636, the Parisian midwives submitted a petition to the Faculty of Medicine requesting that Louise Bourgeois be allowed to teach them obstetrics, but their request was denied.
Subsequently, however, one of her students, Marguerite du Tertre de la Marche, was appointed head of the midwives at the Hôtel-Dieu and succeeded in overhauling their training program.
She died on December 20, 1636, on Boulevard Saint-Germain at the age of 73.
He was born on November 30, 1745, in Heilly, Picardy.
He was the son of Jean Baptiste BAUDELOCQUE, a surgeon, and Anne Marguerite LEVASSEUR. His brothers Félix Honoré (1744–1794) and Jean Baptiste (1749–1800) were both doctors. He was the third of ten children.
It was his father who introduced him to surgery in the countryside of Picardy.
He completed his studies in Paris at the Hôpital de la Charité, where a renowned professor of obstetrics, Solayrès de Renhac (1737–1772), was on staff.
In 1772, following Solayrès’s untimely death at the age of 35, he collected the manuscripts of his lectures and succeeded him as professor of obstetrics at the Hôpital de la Charité. Thanks to Baudelocque, Solayrès’s work was saved from oblivion.
In 1775, at the initiative of Augier du FOT, a surgeon and childbirth instructor in Soissons, he published—based on manuscripts bequeathed by Solayrès de RENHAC—the first edition of a manual intended for the training of midwives. This work was later republished under his name alone, under the title“Principles of the Art of Childbirth: Questions and Answers for Student Midwives.” It was reprinted three times during Baudelocque’s lifetime and three more times posthumously.
In 1776, following the defense of his dissertation on symphysotomy, titled“An in partu propter angustiam pelvis impossibili, symphysis ossium secanda?”, he was appointed surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris and was awarded the title of Master of Surgery by the Paris College of Surgery.
On April 5 or 6, 1777, in Paris, he married Andrée DERULLIER (née de Vulier, de Voulier, de Rullie, or de Rouillier), whose family made mannequins of pregnant women for demonstrations in childbirth classes; she died on January 4, 1787, childless.
In 1781 and 1789, he published the first two editions of his scholarly treatise*The Art of Childbirth* in two volumes. He became famous for his forceps, his practice of cesarean sections, and the invention of the pelvimeter, which measures the external anteroposterior diameter to identify patients who might experience difficulties during childbirth.
On September 14, 1788, in Amiens, he married Marie Catherine Rose Laurent; the couple had five children (three daughters and two sons).
During the French Revolution, the guilds and faculties were abolished. Hospitals lost some of their staff and funding. Baudelocque, however, managed to build a reputation as an obstetrician thanks to a clientele in the city and private obstetrics classes.
In 1794, the former Faculty of Medicine was replaced by the École centrale de Santé de Paris, where he was responsible for teaching medical students and midwives.
In October 1795, the Hospice de la Maternité took in poor women and unwed mothers to assist them during childbirth and provided clinical training for midwives and doctors from the École de Santé.
In addition, this facility also takes in abandoned children.
In 1798, Baudelocque, in addition to his position as professor of obstetrics at the Paris School of Public Health, became chief surgeon at the Maternity Hospital.
In 1802, the Hospice de la Maternité school was founded, where Baudelocque put his teaching skills to use, employing mannequins to allow students to practice examinations and obstetric procedures. He emphasized observation over active intervention, preferring to let nature take its course and using instruments as little as possible.
Busy with his many responsibilities, he delegated part of his authority to the head midwife of the Maternity Ward, Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769–1821), who took on part of the training of the midwifery students and was authorized to use forceps on her own in the event of a difficult delivery.
He was involved in a high-profile lawsuit brought against him by an obstetrician, Jean François SACOMBE, a fierce opponent of cesarean sections and a defender of traditional midwifery practices. Sacombe, who had set himself up as a defender of midwives and accused Baudelocque of infanticide, ultimately lost his case in 1804 and, in the process, any sense of proportion.
In 1806, Napoleon appointed Jean-Louis Baudelocque to the chair of obstetrics, the first medical specialty chair in France.
He became the obstetrician to the queens of Spain, Holland, and Naples, as well as to all the ladies of the court.
He had been chosen and selected in advance to deliver the heir awaited by Napoleon and Empress Marie-Louise of Austria. But, struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage, he would not live to see the birth of the King of Rome.
He died on May 2 or 3, 1810, at 16 Rue Jacob in Paris (6th arrondissement), where he lived, at the age of 65.
He was buried at the Vaugirard West Cemetery, then exhumed due to land acquisition for the construction of what is now Boulevard Pasteur.
He was then buried on August 17, 1839, at Père-Lachaise Cemetery (45thdivision).
He was the most famous obstetrician of his time.
A physician at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades, he would lend his name to the Baudelocque Clinic in 1890.
In 1966, the Port-Royal Maternity Hospital was built. The two facilities merged in 1993 (14th arrondissement of Paris).
There is now a midwifery school on Avenue Denfert-Rochereau that bears her name.
He was born on July 2, 1746, in Dijon, in the parish of Saint Pierre.
His father was a master glazier.
After completing his training at the Dijon hospital, his mother sent him to Paris to continue his medical studies, and he enrolled at the Royal College of Surgery, where he attended classes regularly from 1765 to 1767 and took anatomy courses taught by Raphaël SABATIER and Jean-Joseph SUE.
At the same time, he was learning the basics of surgery at Lafaye’s clinics and, in the afternoons, at those of Isaac GOURSAUD.
His years of surgical training came to an end in 1768, when he earned the title of Master of Surgery; he then settled in Dijon as a surgeon
He married Jeanne CARRE, the daughter and granddaughter of a master surgeon, on July 27, 1767, in Quetigny, Côte d’Or. Together they had a son, Bernard François Hector (1769–1837).
In 1769, he began teaching a free course in human and comparative anatomy, which was attended by many students for more than ten years.
In 1774, the Estates of Burgundy established a chemistry program with Louis-Bernard GUYTON de MORVEAU as the full professor and Hugues MARET and François CHAUSSIER as assistant professors. Upon MARET’s death in 1786, he was promoted to second professor of chemistry.
In Dijon, his professional qualities earned him the favor of his patients, and his reputation quickly spread beyond Burgundy; he distinguished himself at the Academy of Surgery through several presentations, and as a result, he was awarded the Academy’s Gold Medal at the public session on April 10, 1777.
He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Besançon on January 14, 1780, and in 1784, he became a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Medicine. That same year, he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Literature in Dijon, where he became secretary-general following the retirement of Guyton de Morveau.
In 1785, at the request of the Estates of Burgundy, he published a popular guide on the treatment of bites from rabid animals: “Method for Treating Bites from Rabid Animals and Vipers; Followed by a Summary on the Malignant Pustule” (with Joseph Enaux, 1726–1798).
In 1789, he published a study on the muscles of the human body, in which he proposed a more rational classification than the one taught up to that point: “A Brief Overview of the Muscles of the Human Body According to the Methodical Classification and Nomenclature Adopted in the Public Anatomy Course at Dijon”; this work was reprinted in 1797.
On December 20, 1789, he read a paper titled “Surgical-Forensic Observations on an Important Point of Criminal Jurisprudence” at the Academy of Dijon, in which he demonstrated the role that a physician could play in assisting the justice system; this work attracted attention, and the following year he launched a course in forensic medicine in Dijon.
On 3 Nivôse, Year III (December 23, 1794), he married Angélique LABOREY in Dijon (Crébillon District); they also had a son, Franck Bernard Simon (1804–1866).
In 1794, Antoine-François Fourcroy was tasked by the National Convention with reorganizing medical education and sought out a figure who could provide him with the details of this reorganization. Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois, from the Côte-d’Or, who headed the Department of Science and the Arts on the Committee of Public Safety, recommended François Chaussier, who thus joined the Committee of Public Instruction: he drafted a report and a proposed decree, which he read from the rostrum of the Convention on 7 Frimaire, Year III (November 27, 1794); In it, he proposed the creation of a single “Central School of Health” in Paris; the members of the Convention, who were broadly in favor of decentralization, called for the creation of other similar schools in Montpellier and Strasbourg, and it was on this basis that the report was adopted on 14 Frimaire (December 4).
Chaussier returned to Dijon, where he resumed his lectures and studies as well as the duties entrusted to him: he had been appointed physician of the Dijon Hospices in April 1793 and Prison Surgeon; he did not remain there long, however, as he was recalled to Paris to occupy the chair of anatomy and physiology at the School of Health. Chaussier was, in the words of Joseph-Henri Réveillé-Parise, the most famous professor of physiology at the École de Paris: he argued that vitalism was the foundation of all studies in physiology.
A decree dated 7 Vendémiaire, Year III (September 28, 1794) officially established the École Centrale des Travaux Publics, which would later become the École Polytechnique, the Board of Directors proposed, less than a month after the school opened, to establish an infirmary there and to appoint a “health officer” (the revolutionary term for doctors) to care for sick students and also to teach lessons on “the art of preventing and alleviating diseases.” The roster of École Polytechnique staff for the following year lists him as an assistant to Claude Louis Berthollet, “simultaneously responsible for the courses in Zootechnics and Public Health, and School Physician”: in fact, he taught Berthollet’s course during the latter’s absence in Italy in 1796–1797. After the formalization of chemistry instruction, Chaussier appears to have abandoned teaching this science and confined himself almost entirely to his duties as a physician.
In 1799, *Les tables synoptiques* was published to great acclaim. It provides a summary of the physiology, pathology, and treatment of the various anatomical systems of the human body.
On May 9, 1804, he was appointed Physician of the Maternity Hospitals and entrusted with the chairmanship of the medical examination boards for the examinations to become a Public Health Officer, Pharmacist, and Midwife for the district of the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
He was a member of the commission appointed by the Minister of the Interior in October 1810 to study “secret remedies”; there he worked alongside André Marie Constant Duméril, Jean-Joseph Menuret, and Nicolas Deyeux.
In 1815, after the fall of the First Empire, he was replaced as physician at the École Polytechnique, but he retained his chair at the Faculty until November 21, 1822, when the Restoration reorganized the Faculty: he was appointed honorary professor and his chair was revoked. He was deeply embittered by this, and the next day, he suffered a stroke that temporarily left him unable to speak or walk. He recovered, however, though he remained hemiplegic—a condition that did not prevent him from continuing his work at the Maternity Hospital.
On May 6, 1823, he was admitted tothe Academy of Sciences.
Between 1824 and 1827, he published several works on forensic medicine: “Forensic Manual of Poisons, Preceded by Considerations on Poisoning”14, “Collection of Papers, Consultations, and Reports on Various Topics in Forensic Medicine”15, “A Forensic Medical Treatise on the Viability of the Newborn, Presented toHis Excellency the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice”16
François Chaussier died at his home in Paris on June 19, 1828, at the age of 81, from a stroke.
He was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery (18th division) on June 21: Nicolas-Philibert Adelon delivered a speech on behalf of the Academy; Marie-Alexandre Désormaux, representing the Faculty, did the same; and Duméril, on behalf of the Royal Academy of Sciences, read a lengthy eulogy.
Franck CHAUSSIER, thesecond son, followed in his father's footsteps and defended his doctoral dissertation in 1827 in Montpellier.
He is a French physician, a professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Sciences.
Chaussier was the chief editor of the articles on pharmacy inthe *Encyclopédie méthodique*13.
She was born in 1712 in Clermont-Ferrand to a family of doctors.
For the first three years, she studied under Anne BAIRSIN, a midwife.
On September 26, 1739, she received her diploma and shortly thereafter became a licensed midwife.
She worked as a master midwife at Châtelet in Paris for sixteen years.
In 1752, to put theory into practice, she published a book titled *A Summary of the Art of Childbirth*.
In 1754, she returned to Auvergne and began giving free lessons.
In 1758, she designed her famous demonstration “machine” (made of wood, cardboard, fabric, and cotton), which was approved on December1 by the Academy of Surgery.
During the two-month training course, the students were encouraged to practice on the mannequin.
She died on April 16, 1794, at the age of 79, in Bordeaux, in poverty and solitude, with her niece and her husband absent. There is a Rue Angélique du Coudray in Thorigné-Fouillard and also a Rue Madame-du-Coudray in Clermont-Ferrand, her hometown. The maternity ward at the Melun Hospital (77) is also named after her.
