The Lady Doctor: 14 (Graphic Medicine)

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Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, founded in 1861, provided clinical experience for Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania students

Applicants to U.S. Medical Schools Increase; Women the Majority for the First Time" (press release). Association of American Medical Colleges. 3 November 2003. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Women made up the majority of medical school applicants for the first time ever Ann Preston (1813–1872) was the first female to become the dean of a medical school [ Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP)] in 1866. Ogotu Head (1920–2001) was the first female nursing graduate from Niue after having completed her training in Samoa in 1939. [162]

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Swanson, Naomi; Tisdale-Pardi, Julie; MacDonald, Leslie; Tiesman, Hope M. (13 May 2013). "Women's Health at Work". National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015 . Retrieved 21 January 2015. Caymanian doctor follows family tradition – Cayman Islands Headline News". Cayman News Service. 24 February 2015 . Retrieved 1 October 2021. Alice Niragire was the first Rwandan female to graduate with a master's degree in surgery in 2015 since the course was introduced in 2006. [226] In 2018, Claire Karekezi returned to Rwanda to become the country's first female neurosurgeon. [227] Rebecca Edwards became the first Falkland Islander female to become a doctor after completing her medical training at the University College London. [237] Throughout the decade women's ideas about themselves and their relation to the medical field were shifting due to the women's feminist movement. [32] A sharp increase of women in the medical field led to developments in doctor-patient relationships, changes in terminology and theory. [32] One area of medical practice that was challenged and changed was gynecology. [32] Author Wendy Kline noted that "to ensure that young brides were ready for the wedding night, [doctors] used the pelvic exam as a form of sex instruction." [33]

In many occasions, women had to fight against accusation of illegal practice done by males, putting into question their motives. If they were not accused of malpractice, then women were considered "witches" by both clerical and civil authorities. [9] Surgeons and barber-surgeons were often organized into guilds, they could hold out longer against the pressures of licensure. Like other guilds, a number of the barber-surgeon guilds allowed the daughters and wives of their members to take up membership in the guild, generally after the man's death. Katherine la surgiene of London, daughter of Thomas the surgeon and sister of William the Surgeon belonged to a guild in 1286. [10] Documentation of female members in the guilds of Lincoln, Norwich, Dublin and York continue until late in the period. [ citation needed] Esther Apuahe became the first female surgeon in Papua New Guinea in 2011. [221] Naomi Kori Pomat (d. 2021) was the first female doctor in Papua New Guinea's Western Province. [222] Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with Vera Gedroitz, 1915 20th and 21st centuries [ edit ] The small island nation of Tuvalu welcomed its first Tuvaluan female doctors in 2008 as a result of Australian aid. [121] Kakish Ryskulova was the first woman from Kyrgyzstan to become a surgeon. Margaret Allen became the first female heart transplant surgeon in the United States after having performed a transplant performed in 1985 [214]Medic@ – Histoire de l'entrée des femmes en médecine – BIU Santé, Paris". univ-paris5.fr. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012 . Retrieved 10 October 2015.

Rosina Heikel (1842–1929) was a feminist and the first female physician in Finland (1878), as well as in the Nordic countries. Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female doctor in the country. Viljoen, Louise (September 2008). "Nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical writing of two Afrikaner women". Social Dynamics. 34 (2): 186–202. doi: 10.1080/02533950802280063. hdl: 10019.1/12475. S2CID 145461112. Légion d'honneur: Mareva Tourneux nommée chevalier". TAHITI INFOS, les informations de Tahiti (in French) . Retrieved 5 October 2021. Jersey's 'forgotten' women: Play targets gender imbalance". BBC News. 13 December 2019 . Retrieved 6 October 2021.Sun Chau Lee (周理信, 1890–1979) was one of the first female Chinese doctors of Western Medicine in China. [110] Healthcare Pioneers: Matron Hajah Habibah Haji Mohd Hussain" (PDF). Brunei Int Med J. 8: 230. 2012. Fatma bint Saada Nassor Lamki became the first female doctor in Zanzibar sometime during the 1920s. [139] Merbai Ardesir Vakil (1868–1941) was an Indian physician and the first Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university.

Matilda J. Clerk (1916–1984) was the first Ghanaian woman to win a scholarship for university education abroad and the second Ghanaian woman to become a physician. She was also the first woman to obtain a postgraduate diploma in colonial Ghana and West Africa. [143] tiempocultural. "Al Día De La Mujer Salvadoreña". Revistatiempo.fullblog.com.ar. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015 . Retrieved 4 July 2015. Depending on your health history and how old you are, your gynecologist may use this visit to screen for problems like cervical or breast cancer. The well visit is also your chance to ask the gynecologist about reproductive health concerns like birth control.

Anastasia Golovina, also known as Anastassya Nikolau Berladsky-Golovina, and Atanasya Golovina (1850–1933), was the first female doctor in Bulgaria. [74] [75]