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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.
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]
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.
Sabat Islambouli, who graduated in 1890, was the first female physician from Syria. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a leading American woman medical scientist of the nineteenth century. Anadibai Joshee, who graduated in 1886, was the first Indian woman doctor. Kei Okami, who graduated in 1889, was the first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in Western ...
Donna Christian-Christensen, in 1997 became the first woman physician and first African-American physician to serve in the United States Congress. [34] Lillian Atkins Clark was chief resident at the Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia starting in 1924. [59] Mamie Phipps Clark was a psychologist who worked on research regarding black children and ...
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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.
Krontilová-Librova started her pharmacy practice in 1904 and became the first female pharmacy student at the University of Prague in 1907 (graduating in 1909). Finland: The first female pharmacist to qualify without dispensation in Finland was Helene Aejneleus in 1911. Brunberg was the first women to be qualified by dispensation.