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Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762) was the first female doctor in Germany and the first woman worldwide to be granted an MD by a university. Florence Sabin (1871–1953) was the first woman elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor in South Africa. [107] Her thesis, which she obtained a doctorate on in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans. [108] Marguerite Champendal (1870–1928) was the first woman from Geneva to earn her M.D. at the University of Geneva in 1900.Survivor Of Rwandan Genocide To Be Country's First Female Neurosurgeon". HuffPost. 23 May 2018 . Retrieved 27 October 2021. Jersey's 'forgotten' women: Play targets gender imbalance". BBC News. 13 December 2019 . Retrieved 6 October 2021. Former PNDC secretary Dr. Mary Grant is dead | General News 2016-09-19". 20 September 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016 . Retrieved 17 July 2021. First for Bahrain: Women in medicine". www.citizensforbahrain.com. 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 1 May 2016. Meet with the OB/GYN before making a decision. Ask about their medical experience, certification, and attitude about important reproductive issues, like birth control.

Salomée Halpir (1718 – after 1763) was a Polish medic and oculist who is often referred to as the first female doctor from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Puerto Rico's first women doctors, 1908". The Baltimore Sun. 25 October 1908. p.17 . Retrieved 24 September 2021. María Herminia Yelsi and Digna Maldonado de Candía became the first female professional nurses in Paraguay in 1941. [189] 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 Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy, eds. (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415920388. OCLC 40776839.a b c d Žuškin, Eugenija; Piasek, Martina; Piasek, Gustav; Šarić, Marko; Mustajbegović, Jadranka; Sušec, Tanja (2006). "Žene i medicinsko umijeće - povijesni ogled"[Women and medical skill--historic view]. Liječnički Vjesnik (in Croatian). 128 (3–4): 114–121. PMID 16808102. Vilma Hugonnai (1847–1922) was the first female doctor in Hungary. She studied Medicine in Zürich and received her degree in 1879. However, she had to work as a midwife until 1897 when the Hungarian authorities finally accepted her degree. Hugonnai then started her own medical practice. Rosa Mari Mandicó (b. 1951) became the first qualified female nurse in Andorra in 1971. [195] In 1991, Concepció Álvarez Martínez, Isabel Navarro Gilabert, Dominica Ramond Punsola, Montserrat Rue Capella, Pilar Serrano Gascón, Purificación Valverde Hernández and Maria Líria Viñolas Blasco were the first nurse graduates in Andorra. [196] Edwards Muriel (1950). "Emma K. Willits". Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. 5 (1): 42–43.

Xhanfize (Frashëri) Basha returned to Albania to become the country's first female doctor upon completing her studies at the University of Philadelphia in 1937. [182]

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