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About OBGynSpace

From first visit to delivery, clinic to OR: obstetrics and gynaecology taught as a patient journey, for medical students, by Mediverse.

How it teaches

Pregnancy is a timeline, so the platform is built on one: a model of the uterus and pelvis that grows from the non-pregnant state to term, the milestones week by week, and the modules that belong to each stretch of it. Gynaecology is a clinic, so it is taught presentation-first: the first question a clinician asks, the workflow, the differential with what favours and what argues against each entry.

The flagship rooms are the Labour and Delivery floor (fictional patients with charts, labour curves, a moving monitor and one decision each), the Fetal Monitoring Lab (see the strip and its context first, commit in six steps, then read the annotation) and the Ultrasound Lab (real images with the answer held back). Cases are forward-only: the next step does not exist until you have decided on this one, and the tutor is given only what you have seen.

What is real and what is authored

  • Ultrasound images, photographs and figures are real, hot-linked from Wikimedia Commons under their licences, each verified on its file page for what it shows, who made it and whether anyone is identifiable, and each credited beside the image. Files with burned-in labels are shown for learning only, never as a challenge.
  • Fetal heart rate tracings are authored schematic teaching tracings, generated from parameters (baseline, variability, decelerations tied to contractions) so the grid is exact and the strip can scroll at the monitor's speed. None is a real patient's recording, and every strip says so on its face. No AI reads a waveform; the authored annotation is the source of truth.
  • Patients on the board, in the cases and in the simulations are fictional. Nothing here derives from a real record, and nothing you type is stored anywhere but your own browser.

Frameworks, named

Where guidelines differ, the platform names the one it is teaching from rather than blending them: NICHD definitions and the three-tier category for fetal monitoring (the SOGC classification is named separately), SOGC for the hypertensive disorders with ACOG terms alongside, Diabetes Canada's two pathways for glucose screening, FIGO's PALM-COEIN, the international PCOS guideline, the US and WHO medical eligibility criteria for contraception. Content was last reviewed as a whole in 2026-09. It is teaching material for students, not clinical decision support: check the current edition of the guideline your unit uses.

  • NICHD / ACOG / SMFM: Electronic fetal monitoring: definitions, interpretation and the three-tier categorisation (Macones et al.) (2008)
  • ACOG: Practice Bulletin 106: intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring, nomenclature, interpretation and general management principles (2009)
  • SOGC: Fetal health surveillance: intrapartum consensus guideline (revised) (2020)
  • SOGC: Guideline 426: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, diagnosis, prediction, prevention and management (2022)
  • ACOG: Practice Bulletin 222: Gestational hypertension and preeclampsia (2020)
  • Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines: diabetes and pregnancy (2018)
  • SOGC: Guideline: prevention of early-onset group B streptococcal disease in newborns (2018)
  • SOGC: Guideline: postpartum haemorrhage, prevention and management (2022)
  • ACOG: Practice Bulletin 183: postpartum hemorrhage (2017)
  • SOGC: Guideline: induction of labour (2023)
  • ACOG / SMFM: Obstetric Care Consensus 1: safe prevention of the primary cesarean delivery (contemporary labour curves) (2014)
  • FIGO: The two FIGO systems for normal and abnormal uterine bleeding symptoms and classification of causes (PALM-COEIN), 2018 revisions (2018)
  • International PCOS Network: International evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (2023)
  • SOGC: Guideline: endometriosis diagnosis and management (2024)
  • CDC / WHO: Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (US MEC 2024; WHO MEC 5th edition) (2024)
  • SOGC: Canadian contraception consensus (2015)
  • Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care / provincial programmes: Cervical cancer screening recommendations and provincial HPV-based screening programmes (2025)
  • SOGC: Guideline: management of tubal ectopic pregnancy and pregnancy of unknown location (2024)
  • ACOG: Practice Bulletin 200: early pregnancy loss (2018)
  • SOGC: Guideline: antenatal corticosteroids and management of preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (2018)
  • SOGC: Guideline: menopause and its management (2021)
  • RCOG: Green-top Guideline 42: shoulder dystocia (2012)
  • RCOG: Green-top Guideline 50: umbilical cord prolapse (2014)
  • ISUOG: Practice guidelines: first-trimester and mid-trimester fetal ultrasound (2022)
  • Cunningham et al.: Williams Obstetrics, 26th edition (maternal physiology, labour mechanics, placental anatomy) (2022)
  • NICE: Antenatal care (NG201) and intrapartum care (NG235) (2023)
  • WHO: Recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience; intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience (2018)
  • CDC: Sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines (2021)
  • ACOG / ASRM: Committee Opinion 762: Prepregnancy counseling (2019)
  • SOGC: Guideline: folic acid and multivitamin supplementation for the prevention of folate-sensitive congenital anomalies (2022)
  • NICE: Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management (NG123) (2019)
  • Osteoporosis Canada: Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and fracture prevention in Canada: 2023 update (2023)
  • Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in women aged 40 to 74 who are not at increased risk (2018)
  • WHO: Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: clinical and policy guidelines (2013)

What is inside

Modules
40
Presentations
16
Cases
12
Simulations
4
Tracings
20
Ultrasound studies
50
Procedures
10
L&D rooms
7

Part of Mediverse

OBGynSpace hands off where another space is the expert: the deep imaging read to RadSpace, the operation and the anaesthetic to SurgSpace, the drug to PharmSpace, the ward medicine and the handover to WardSpace, the skin of pregnancy to DermSpace.

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