page_title: Ruth Nicholson
section_title: Post war career
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth Nicholson / Post war career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Scottish Women's Hospital - in the Cloister of the Abbaye at Royaumont. Dr. Frances Ivens inspecting a French patient. image: A view along the cloister of an abbey, in which there is a row of beds filled with patients on the left. In the left foreground three nurses tend to a male patient, who sits up in bed. Two French officers in horizon blue uniforms stand in the right foreground, with two French soldiers and a man wearing a Fez-style hat standing behind them.
context_page_description: Ruth Nicholson FRCOG was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist who served as a surgeon in the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, France during the First World War. For this work she was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille d’Honneur des Épidémies by the French government. After the war she specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology as Clinical Lecturer and Gynaecological Surgeon at the University of Liverpool with consultant appointments at Liverpool hospitals. She was a founder member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, being elevated to fellow of the College in 1931.
context_section_description: Inspired by her chief Frances Ivens, she decided on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology. Working as a general practitioner in Birkenhead, she prepared for the necessary examinations and became a founder member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1929. Following a recommendation from Frances Ivens she was promoted to Fellow of the College (FRCOG) in 1931. She was appointed Clinical Lecturer and Gynaecological Surgeon at the University of Liverpool in 1930 in succession to Frances Ivens and held consultant appointments at Liverpool hospitals in addition to her own private practice. She was the first woman president of the North of England Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
caption: Frances Ivens, staff and patients in the cloisters at Royaumont. Painting by Norah Neilson Gray.
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