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Cora LeEthel Christian, MD '71, MPH Physician, Advocate and Policy-Maker in Paradise" (PDF). Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin. Spring 2012. Augusta Jawara (1924–1981) was the first female from The Gambia to qualify as a state certified midwife in 1953. She completed her training in England. [166] Fatma bint Saada Nassor Lamki became the first female doctor in Zanzibar sometime during the 1920s. [139]Henriette Saloz-Joudra (1855–1928) successfully defended a doctoral thesis in cardiology at the University of Geneva in June 1883. [80] 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. Katherine Burdon, wife of the then-Government Administrator, was among the women formally registered as midwives for St. Kitts and Anguilla in 1920. [161] 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] The next step is usually an internal pelvic exam. To see inside the body, a gynecologist uses a tool known as a speculum, which the doctor inserts into the vagina. It helps to widen the vagina and helps the doctor see the cervix, which is between the vagina and the uterus.

Josephine Nambooze (b. 1930) started her practice as the first female doctor in Uganda in 1962. [175] Selina Rwashana was the first psychiatric nurse in Uganda after having completed her training in the United Kingdom during the 1950s. [176] First for Bahrain: Women in medicine". www.citizensforbahrain.com. 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 1 May 2016. Yu Meide (1874–1960) became the first Chinese Western medicine female doctor in Macau when she started a medical practice in 1906. [125] [126] Walsh, James J. Old Time Makers of Medicine. Plain Label Books. ISBN 978-1603032261– via Google Books.

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Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) was the first female doctor in Haiti. [150] She was the first woman accepted into the medical school of the University of Haiti, and earned her medical degree there in 1940. [150] a b c Adell Patton (1996). Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. University Press of Florida. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0813014326 . Retrieved 12 December 2015. Women continue to dominate in nursing. In 2000, 94.6% of registered nurses in the United States were women. [50] In health care professions as a whole in the US, women numbered approximately 14.8million, as of 2011. [51] Choua Thao (b. 1943), at the age of 14, was one of two Hmong girls recruited to receive nursing training around the time of the Secret War in Laos. [192] [193] [194]