List of first female physicians by country
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. The dates given in parentheses below are the dates the women graduated from medical school. Studies have shown that patients treated by female physicians may have better outcomes than patients treated by male physicians.[1][2]
Africa
Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
---|---|---|---|
Aldjia Noureddine-Benallègue | 1946 | 1946 | |
Merit-Ptah | c. 2700 BCE | ||
Susan Ofori-Atta | 1949 | 1949 | |
Mary de Sousa[3] | 1919 | ||
Two women[4] | 2015 | 2015 | |
Françoise Legey[5] (born in France) | 1900 | 1909 | |
Libertina Amathila | 1969 | 1969 | |
Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi | 1938 | 1938 | |
Marie-Thérèse Basse[6] | |||
Hawa Abdi | 1971 | 1971 | |
Jane Elizabeth Waterston | |||
Khalida Zahir[7] | 1952 | 1952 | |
And one other woman[8] | 1952 | ||
Esther Mwaikambo[9] | 1969 | 1969 | |
Tewhida Ben Sheikh | 1936 | 1936 | |
Josephine Nambooze | 1959 | 1962 | |
Madeline Nyamwanza-Makonese | 1970 | 1970 |
Americas
Asia
Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
---|---|---|---|
Maghul M. Ali[11] | Late 1950s | Late 1950s | |
Sona Valikhan | 1908 | 1908 | |
Sadeeqa Ali Al-Awadi[12] | |||
Zohra Begum Kazi | |||
Maria Michaelides[13] | 1927 | 1927 | |
Lai Po-cheun[14] | |||
Anandi Gopal Joshi / Kadambini Ganguly [15][16] | 1886 | LRCP (Edinburgh), LRCS (Glasgow), and GFPS (Dublin) | |
Marie E. Thomas[17] | 1922 | 1922 | |
Badri Teymourtash | 1920s | 1920s | |
1922[18] | |||
Bat Sheva Yonis-Guttman (first recorded)[19] | 1909 | ||
Ogino Ginko | 1882 | 1885 | |
Jang-geum | 16th century | ||
Eleanor Jane Taylor Calverley (born in USA)[20] | 1908 | 1911 | |
Edma Abouchdid | 1931 | 1936 | |
Salma Ismail | 1947 | 1947 | |
Sonia Belkind[21][22] (born in Russia) | 1905 | 1906 | |
Honoria Acosta-Sison | 1909 | 1909 | |
Nadezhda Suslova | 1867 | 1868 | |
Lee Choo Neo | 1919 | 1919 | |
Sabat Islambouli | 1890 | 1890 | |
Tsai Ah-hsin | 1921 | 1925 | |
Pierra Vejjabul | 1936 | 1936 | |
Safiye Ali | 1922 | ||
Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu | 1934 | ||
1990s[23] |
Europe
Oceania
Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
---|---|---|---|
Constance Stone | 1890 | ||
Jiko Luveni | 1967 | 1967 | |
Emily Siedeberg | 1896 | 1905 | |
Nese Ituaso-Conway | 1999 | ||
Miliama Simeona[28] | 1999 |
See also
References
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- ↑ Windsor, Laura Lynn (2002-01-01). Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576073926.
- ↑ "Alexandra Belkind, First Woman Doctor in Palestine, Dies at 72". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1943-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
- ↑ Hirsch, Luise (2013). From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women and Cultural Exchange. Studies in Judaism. UPA. p. 48. ISBN 9780761859932. OCLC 856869816. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
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