The sisters later started and opened the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, an extension of their work to use the infirmary as a training ground for women physicians to hone their skills and gain practical experience with patients (for although medical schools may have been opened to women, residencies and internships were not).
Emily is the one who seemed to have a true calling and desire to help patients, as well as the business acumen and personality suited to running a clinic. Elizabeth eventually spent her time primarily as an advocate for women’s rights and education - both in the United States and England - rather than as a medical practitioner. In addition to being the first (and among the first) females to graduate from medical school in the United States, Elizabeth and Emily eventually opened and ran the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first such health care center in the United States run and staffed solely by women. The Doctors Blackwell is an easy read about the Blackwell sisters’ lives and journeys. The journey of Elizabeth’s younger sister Emily Blackwell, who became the third woman in the United States to obtain an MD degree (in 1854), is also covered, since Emily’s career choice was largely due to Elizabeth’s influence and her life closely bound with Elizabeth’s. 3 Given the steady growth in female physicians in the United States since the 1970s and the more readily visible presence of women in medical education and the physician workforce today, it was with interest that I read The Doctors Blackwell, a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an MD degree in the United States - in 1849. medical schools in 2020–2021 (48,530 women out of 94,243 total students) and 50% of graduates of U.S. 2 The numbers for medical students and graduates fare better, with women accounting for 51% of students in U.S. Today, women account for 36% of all licensed physicians in the United States (369,139 women out of a total physician workforce of 1,018,776).
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