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The Medical Women's Association of Nigeria (MWAN) is a Nigerian women's health organization that represents female doctors registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The group's mission is to improve women's health in Nigeria through patient advocacy, including offering community health screening programs. [1]
In her fourth year of medical school, she obtained first-class honours in all subjects, won a prize in Diseases of the Skin and a medal in Forensic Medicine, making her the first woman in the history of Edinburgh to do so. [2] [a] [8] [9] She was awarded the Dorothy Gilfillan Memorial Prize as the best woman graduate in 1929. [2]
Also: Nigeria: People: By occupation: Medical doctors / Women scientists: Women physicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Nigerian medical doctors . It includes medical doctors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
[1] [2] In 1938, Elizabeth Awoliyi became the second West African woman to qualify as an orthodox-medicine trained physician after Agnes Yewande Savage who graduated from medical school in 1929. [3] She was the second president of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1964 until her death in 1971.
Women's participation in the medical professions was generally limited by legal and social practices during the decades while medicine was professionalizing. [42] Women openly practiced medicine in the allied health professions ( nursing , midwifery , etc.), and throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women made significant gains in ...
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.
Eleanor's father is from Abia State, Nigeria, and her mother is from Jamaica. They both met in London when her father was studying Veterinary Medicine at the University of London and her mother at the time was training to be a nurse. She attended several schools due to her father's job and the interruptions of the Nigerian Civil War. She ...
In the modern sector, a few women were appearing at all levels in offices, banks, social services, nursing, radio, television, and the professions (teaching, engineering, environmental design, law, pharmacy, medicine, and even agriculture and veterinary medicine).