Physicians who opened the profession to people it had excluded: Elizabeth Blackwell as the first woman doctor in America, Susan La Flesche Picotte as the first Native American woman doctor, Rebecca Lee Crumpler as the first African American woman doctor and Traute Lafrenz who qualified in medicine after the White Rose resistance. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a woman or a minority physician for whom access to the profession is the main fact. It excludes the premodern physicians.
All Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians
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Dorothea Erxleben (Wikipedia)
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the first woman doctor of medicine in Germany
Nadezhda Suslova (Wikipedia)
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Russia's first woman medical doctor
Susan Love (Wikipedia)
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She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States.
Rahel Hirsch (Wikipedia)
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In 1913 she became the first woman in the Kingdom of Prussia to be appointed a professor of medicine.
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (source article)
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erstes weibliches Staatsoberhaupt eines deutschen Staates
Mildred Scheel (Wikipedia)
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In 1950 she started her university medical studies in Munich, Innsbruck and Regensburg.
Rahel Straus (Jewish Women Archive encyclopedia)
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Rahel Goitein Straus was among the first women to be trained as a medical doctor in Germany
Maria Montessori (Wikipedia)
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becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (Wikipedia)
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She became the first professor of psychiatry of old age in the UK
Elfriede Paul (source article)
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geb. 14.01.1900 Köln, gest. 30.08.1981 Ahrenshoop
Rachel Brooks Gleason (Wikipedia)
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fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
Franziska Tiburtius (Wikipedia)
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Tiburtius was one of the first two women to qualify as a doctor in imperial Germany.
Anna Honzáková (Wikipedia)
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She was the first female medical doctor to graduate from the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague
Ruth Jackson (Wikipedia)
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the first female board-certified orthopedic surgeon in the United States
Marie Equi (source article)
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Marie Equi became one of the first 60 women to become a physician in Oregon.
Maud Chadburn (source article)
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was one of the earliest women in the United Kingdom to pursue a career as a surgeon
Mary Verghese (source article)
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was an Indian physician who was among the earliest pioneers of physical medicine and rehabilitation in India
Irma LeVasseur (source article)
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She was a pioneer in pediatric medicine and was the first French-Canadian woman to become a doctor.
Emily Barringer (source article)
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was the world's first female ambulance surgeon and the first woman to secure a surgical residency
Alice Hamilton (source article)
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In 1919, she became the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University.
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (source article)
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was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States
Elizabeth Blackwell (Wikipedia)
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Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821-31 May 1910) was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Wikipedia
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She was the first African-American female doctor of medicine, qualifying at the New England Female Medical College in 1864.
Wikipedia: Susan La Flesche Picotte
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She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree.
Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (Wikipedia)
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She was among the first women to receive a medical degree in German-speaking Europe.
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