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Henriette graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1869. [3] [4] [5] 1874: Fanny A. Rambarger became the second American woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, which she did in 1874, when she graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. She worked in Philadelphia and limited her practice to women ...
Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881) was the first female doctor and surgeon in Sweden; whereas, Amalia Assur (1803–1889) was the first female dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe. Marie Durocher (1809–1893) was a Brazilian obstetrician, midwife and physician. She is considered the first female doctor in Brazil and the Americas.
1895: Lilian Lindsay became the first licensed female dentist in Britain. [12] 1895: Anna Robina (Robbi) Karvonen became the first female dentist to study and earn a dental degree in Finland, when she took her exam in 1895. [27] 1898: Emma Gaudreau Casgrain became the first licensed female dentist in Canada. [12]
The study compared hospitals in Canada where female surgeons and anesthesiologists made up more than 35% of the surgical teams to hospitals with a smaller share of female doctors.
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. The dates given in parentheses below are the dates the women graduated from medical school.
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Dolores Mercedes Franklin in 1974 became the first African American woman to graduate from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. [84] Clara Frye was a nurse and inventor who received a patent for a combination bed and bedpan in 1907. [85] G. Jessie G. Garnett in 1919 became the first woman to graduate from Tufts Dental School. [86]
Three female doctors at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have filed suit against L.A. County, alleging it ignored years of complaints about Dr. Louis Kwong.