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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.
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. 19th-century Spanish women physicians (6 P) 20th-century Spanish women physicians (8 P) 21st-century Spanish women physicians (15 P)
Laura Martínez de Carvajal. Laura Martínez de Carvajal (1869–1941) was the first female doctor in Cuba. [1] She was the oldest daughter of a rich Spanish family, and learned to read and write at age four and finished high school at age thirteen. [2] Because she was a woman, when she studied medicine she was not able to dissect corpses at ...
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ s ɔːr i / MON-tiss-OR-ee, Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; 31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy.
A similar case is música (meaning both "music" and "female musician"). Juez ("male judge"). Many judges in Spanish-speaking countries are women. Since the ending of juez is uncommon in Spanish, some prefer being called la juez while others have created the neologism jueza. See also. Gender neutrality in Portuguese; References
Madeleine Brès (1839–1925) was the first female medical doctor in France. [72] Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912) was an English physician, feminist and teacher who was the first woman to practice medicine in Scotland in 1878. Sophia Bambridge (1841–1910) was the first female doctor in American Samoa.
UNAM 's School of Medicine (Spanish: Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM) is the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located at the university's main campus of Ciudad Universitaria. Established in 1553 as part of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, it is one of the oldest medical schools in the Americas.
The women of Salerno, also referred to as the ladies of Salerno and the Salernitan women ( Latin: mulieres Salernitanae ), were a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy, at the Schola Medica Salernitana, one of the first medical schools to allow women. A miniature depicting the Schola Medica Salernitana from a copy of Avicenna ...