The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania was the first medical school in the world established (in 1850) to train woman as medical doctors. We read about how one of its first students, Ann Preston, became the first woman dean of the school, in the previous post Women in Medicine: 6 Pioneering Activists. The medical school went on to graduate many pioneers in the medical field. One of them was Anandabai Gopal Joshee, who was not only the first Indian woman to receive a Western medical degree, but also the first known Hindu woman to travel to America. Read her story in an article I posted at mental_floss.
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