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The Northern Indian Medical & Dental Association of Canada (NIMDAC) is an association of medical doctors and dentists of Indian origin who reside in Canada and North America. There are 100 life members and more than 150 active members. It is a non profit organization which is run by the office bearers who are elected by the members annually.
Medical Women's International Association [1] Médecins Sans Frontières; World Allergy Organization [1] World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine [1] World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; World Health Organization; World Medical Association [1]
Kadambini Ganguly (1861–1923) was the first Indian woman to obtain a medical degree in India upon graduating from the Calcutta Medical College in 1886. Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), born in India, was a pioneering Scottish doctor and suffragist who obtained her MD at Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women and worked at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
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.
Beatrice Medicine (August 1, 1923 - December 19, 2005) (Sihasapa and Minneconjou Lakota) (Lakota name Híŋša Wašté Aglí Wiŋ – "Returns Victorious with a Red Horse Woman" [1] [2]) was a scholar, anthropologist, and educator known for her work in the fields of Indigenous languages, cultures, and history.
Charlie later helped establish the National Association of Indian Rights for Indian Women in 1977 and the Native Women's Association of Canada. [2] Charlie worked for decades to remove section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act, which stripped women of their Indian Status if they married non-status men.
Canada: Preevoot was considered the first Canadian woman to pass the pharmacy exam by law. Chile: Glafira Vargas was the first female to graduate with a pharmacy degree in 1887, though Hinojosa appears to be the first female to work as a pharmacist upon graduation.
Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective in Canada, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. [1] The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men ...