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Lai Po-cheun was the first female to study and graduate as a medical student at the Hong Kong University during the 1920s. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] Fatma bint Saada Nassor Lamki became the first female doctor in Zanzibar sometime during the 1920s.
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an English-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]
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist.She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon [1] and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. [2]
20th-century Irish women medical doctors (1 C, 21 P) 20th-century Israeli women physicians (17 P) 20th-century Italian women physicians (19 P) J.
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.
As a young woman, she taught at a school in Minetto, New York, eventually earning enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College, where she graduated with honors as a medical doctor in 1855, the only woman in her class. [6] Photograph of Mary E. Walker by Mathew Brady Studio sometime during the period of c. 1860-1870.
She was the first female physician to work at the women's prison in Athens. In 1908, Angeliki Panagiotatou attempted to teach at the University of Athens but she was met with catcalls and insults by the males of the university. By the 1920s more women poured into the University of Athens medical school but statistically far less than the men.
Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820–1921), American physician, first female physician in the state of Louisiana; Rebecca Cole (1846–1922) American physician, by 1867 she was the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States