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At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865. [6]
Alma Dea Morani (1907–2001) was the first woman admitted to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. [152] Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) was the first female doctor in Haiti. [153] She was the first woman accepted into the medical school of the University of Haiti, and earned her medical degree there in 1940. [153]
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.
Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. [1] As a Berlin native, she found great interest in medicine after assisting her mother, who worked as a midwife.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist.She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon [1] and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. [2]
After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century. [4] In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses. The book has two parts that cover ...
Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown [1] (January 7, 1914 – June 13, 2004 [2]), also known as "Dr. D.", [3] was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher.She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States.
Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center.