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This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
Occupation. Physician. Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1] Blackwell played an important role in both the United ...
Barbara Ross-Lee (born 1942) was the first African American female dean of a U.S. medical school (1993) [Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine]. [192] Kek Galabru (born 1942) became the first female doctor in Cambodia upon obtaining her medical degree in France in 1968. [193]
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician ...
Founded in 1850, The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania ( WMCP ), formally known as The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first American medical college dedicated to teaching women medicine and allowing them to earn the Doctor of Medicine degree, M.D. [1] 1867- The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was renamed the Woman ...
Occupation (s) Physician, activist, educator. Known for. First female dean of an American medical college. Ann Preston (December 1, 1813 – April 18, 1872) was an American physician, activist, and educator. As head of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, she was the first female dean of a medical school in the United States of America.
About 37 percent of doctors in the U.S. were women as of 2021, according to the American Medical Association. This is a result of the field historically being male-dominated and attrition rates ...
Rebecca Cole. Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier. Throughout her life she faced racial and gender-based barriers to ...