Medicine

Women's Firsts in Medicine

From the first woman to earn a medical degree in 1849 to modern medical breakthroughs, these women healed and transformed healthcare.

2 firsts documented

medicine 1849 Who Was the First Woman Doctor in the United States? Elizabeth Blackwell Graduated from Geneva Medical College after the male students voted to admit her as a joke. She went on to found her own hospital and medical school. medicine 1854 Who Founded Modern Nursing? Florence Nightingale Transformed military hospitals in the Crimean War, invented statistical data visualization for healthcare, and established the world's first secular nursing school.