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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. The dates given in parentheses below are the dates the women graduated from medical school.
Africa
Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
---|---|---|---|
Algeria | Aldjia Noureddine-Benallègue | 1946 | 1946 |
Angola | Melba Dias Costa | 1950 | |
Benin | Solange Faladé | 1955 | |
Botswana | Nolwandle Nozipo Mashalaba | 1965 | |
Burkina Faso | Bibiane Kone | ||
Burundi | Marcelline Ntakibirora | 1982 | 1983 |
Cameroon | Gladys Ejomi | 1962 | |
Cape Verde | Maria Francisca de Oliveira Sousa | ||
Chad | Grace Kodindo | 1977 | |
Comoros | Zaitouni Abdou | ||
Democratic Republic of Congo | Louise Celia Fleming | 1895 | 1895 |
Egypt | Hilana Sedarous | 1930 | 1930 |
Equatorial Guinea | Margarita Roka Elobo | ||
Eswatini | Fanny Friedman | ||
Ethiopia | Widad Kidanemariam | c. 1960s | |
Gambia | Kinneh Sogur | 2007 | |
Ghana | Susan Ofori-Atta | 1949 | 1949 |
Ivory Coast | Christiane Welffens-Ekra | c. 1975 | |
Kenya | Mary de Sousa | 1919 | |
Lesotho | Bertha Hardegger (born in Switzerland) | 1937 | |
Liberia | Florence Gbeye D. McClain | 1962 | |
Libya | Younes Qwaider | 1969 | |
Madagascar | Marthe Ramiaramanana-Ralivao | 1950 | |
Malawi | Vida Mungwira (the country was then known as Nyasaland) | 1956 | |
Mali | Diaka Diawara Sacko | ||
Mauritania | Nusaiba Abdel-Qader and Meimouna mint Mohamed Lemine | 2015 | 2015 |
Mauritius | Sajeda Vayid | 1965 | |
Morocco | Françoise Legey (born in France) | 1900 | 1909 |
Namibia | Libertina Amathila | 1969 | 1969 |
Nigeria | Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi | 1938 | 1938 |
Republic of Congo | Yvonne Obenga | c. 1970s | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | Julieta da Graça do Espírito Santo | 1955 | |
Senegal | Marie-Thérèse Basse | 1957 | 1958 |
Seychelles | Hilda Stevenson-Delhomme | 1939 | |
Sierra Leone | Irene Ighodaro | 1945 | |
Somalia | Hawa Abdi | 1971 | 1971 |
South Africa | Jane Elizabeth Waterston | 1880 | |
Sudan | Khalida Zahir | 1952 | 1952 |
Zaroui Sarkissian | 1952 | ||
Tanzania | Esther Mwaikambo | 1969 | 1969 |
Tunisia | Tewhida Ben Sheikh | 1936 | 1936 |
Uganda | Josephine Nambooze | 1959 | 1962 |
Zambia | Elwyn Chomba | 1973 | |
Zimbabwe | Madeline Nyamwanza-Makonese | 1970 | 1970 |
Americas
Asia
- Nepal: Bethel Fleming (born in the U.S.) is considered the first Western female physician to practice in the country.
Europe
Oceania
Country | Physician | Year graduated medical school |
Year began practice |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | Constance Stone | 1890 | |
Fiji | Kanta Madovji | 1968 | |
Kiribati | Terenganuea Taaram (then known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) | before 1974 | |
Micronesia | Ulai Otobed | 1965 | |
New Zealand | Emily Siedeberg | 1896 | 1905 |
Papua New Guinea | Joan Refshauge | 1947 | |
Samoa | Viopapa Annandale-Atherton | 1964 | |
Solomon Islands | Junilyn Pikacha | 1978 | 1981 |
Tonga | 'Akanesi Makakaufaki | 1976 | |
Tuvalu | Nese Ituaso-Conway | 1999 | |
Miliama Simeona | 1999 |
See also
- List of first female pharmacists by country
- List of first women dentists by country
- Women in dentistry
- Women in medicine
Notes
- Although Nambooze practiced medicine in Uganda, she is considered the first female physician in Central Africa (which includes the Central African Republic, Gabon, and Rwanda) and East Africa (which includes Djibouti, Eritrea, Mozambique and South Sudan)
- According to various sources, Dahl-Regis is considered one of the first women to graduate with a medical degree during the 1960s.
- Although Fraser was the first woman authorized to practice medicine in the Dominican Republic in 1884, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo was the first woman to earn her medical degree in the Dominican Republic in 1909.
- Buwei Yang Chao was considered the first female doctor in China to specialize in Western medicine.
- Salome Regina Rusetskaya never received any formal medical education.
- First woman doctor in modern Italy was Ernestina Paper in 1877.
- Jankümis Bayğozïna graduated from a medical school in 1885, but that was as an obsterician.
- Although Marcelle Dauphin is considered Luxembourg's first female doctor in certain sources, she was actually a dentist. Welter was the first female general practitioner physician.
- First Swedish woman doctor who graduated from a University was Charlotte Yhlen, and first woman doctor to graduate from a Swedish University was Karolina Widerström.
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