Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-born physician who on January 23, 1849 became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, graduating from Geneva Medical College in New York after every other school she applied to had refused her. In 1857 she and her sister Emily, also a physician, joined with Marie Zakrzewska to found the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, a hospital staffed entirely by women, and in 1868 the infirmary opened an associated medical college to train women physicians; after returning to Britain she helped open the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated from Geneva Medical College on January 23, 1849, after every other school she applied to had refused her.
Elizabeth Blackwell, an English-born physician, became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States on January 23, 1849, graduating from Geneva Medical College in New York after every other school she applied to had refused her. In 1857 she and her sister Emily, also a physician, joined with Marie Zakrzewska to found the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, a hospital staffed entirely by women, and in 1868 the infirmary opened an associated medical college to train women physicians. After returning to Britain she helped open the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874.
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Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D. from an American medical school (Geneva Medical College, 1849), practiced general medicine and co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children to provide primary care.
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February 3, 1821
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May 31, 1910
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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.
In Group: Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians, Introduction, sentence 1
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.
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