2023-10-30 21:29:15
In the late 19th century, after the Boston Female Medical College broke ground by offering medical education to women, other similar schools for women opened in the United States (Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection /Library of Congress)
In Boston, 175 years ago, a medical school opened its doors to women, and 12 enrolled. Today, about 52,000 women study medicine in American schools. In fact, the number of women enrolled exceeds that of men.
Since the Boston Female Medical College opened its doors on November 1, 1848, the first in the world for women, Boston has become a center of medical innovations that attracts thousands of students, both men and women. .
There are 350,000 practicing female medical doctors in the United States, and their achievements are not only economically empowering, but also help improve patient outcomes. “We’ve shown that outcomes are better when it’s a diverse group,” says Dr. Jennifer Tseng, surgeon-in-chief at Boston Medical Center, the teaching hospital of Boston University School of Medicine. “Especially in high-risk operations, you want to make sure there is diversity of thought to come to the best decision.” Women surgeons, she says, “can really make a difference.”
(U.S. Dept. of State/M. Gregory)
Boston University, which merged with Boston Female Medical College in the 1870s, is proud of its institution’s connection to the forefront of academic opportunities for all students. In 1864, the first black woman medical doctor, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (in English), graduated from college and began practicing in Boston, focusing on African-American communities that had been ignored by the medical establishment. And in the 1870s, the merged colleges admitted one of the country’s first North American Indian medical students, Ohiyesa, of the Santee Dakota tribe.
Kaye-Alese Green, a third-year medical student at Boston University, says part of the reason she chose to attend Boston University was its history of inclusivity. She likes the fact that the school tries to train doctors who strive to provide quality health care to all types of patients.
Nearly three-quarters of the students at the University of Massachusetts medical school are women. Here, students learn how to examine a patient. (© Elise Amendola/AP)
Medical specialties
Las highest paying specialties in the United States (in English), such as neurosurgery, thoracic surgery and orthopedic surgery, remain predominantly dominated by men, while women are more likely to choose lower-paid specialtiessuch as dermatology, pediatrics or obstetrics.
But even here changes are occurring: in the last 10 years for which data is available, the proportion of women in neurosurgeon and thoracic surgeon positions nearly doubled, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Tseng witnesses great contributions from women in the field, noting that 60% of surgical residents at Boston University are women.
Although Green, now a third-year medical student, is not yet in the hospital residency stage of his training, he is already thinking about what specialty he will choose when he gets to that point. “I love surgery,” she says.
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