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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.
Physician Year graduated medical school Year began practice Australia: Annie Praed [95] Margaret "Madge" Estelle Maltby-Robinson (née Barnes) [96] Frances Dorothy Gray [97] 1906-1907 Fiji: Jiko Yasa (née Luveni) [98] [99] 1967 1967 New Zealand: Margaret Caro [100] 1881 Vanuatu: Toumelu Kalsakau [101]
Josephine Nambooze (born 1930) (pronunciation ⓘ) is a Ugandan physician, public health specialist, academic, and medical researcher. She is an emeritus professor of public health at Makerere University School of Public Health. Nambooze was the first female East African to qualify as a physician circa 1959. [1]
In 1904 she became the first woman of any race to graduate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry). [29] In 1905 she was awarded the Doctor of Dental Surgery from that school, [ 30 ] and after a trial of the State Board of Dental Examiners, which delayed the awarding ...
Isala Van Diest (7 May 1842 – 6 February 1916) was the first female medical doctor and the first female university graduate in Belgium. Nadezhda Suslova (1843–1918), a graduate of Zurich University, was the first female doctor in Russia [76] Edith Pechey-Phipson (1845–1908) was a pioneering English doctor in India.
Isabella Epiu is an anesthesiologist and critical care medicine specialist in Uganda, who is reported to be the first female anesthesiologist in the countries of the East African Community, to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
The University of Tennessee College of Dentistry is the dental school of the University of Tennessee. It is in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and its facilities are part of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The college has a four-year program and approximately 320 students.
Coleman née Howard was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, on July 3, 1870, the oldest of four children of an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister. After completing high school at the Walden University high school, [1] Coleman graduated from Central Tennessee College in 1885. [2] She married the Reverend P. J. Coleman in 1902. [3]