Introduction To The Medical Profession

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1. first medical school in USA?

2. founded when?

3. founded by?

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1. Univ of Penn School of Medicine

2. 1765

3. John Morgan

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first school for women?

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Women's Medical College of Penn

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James McCune Smith

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received med degree from Univ of Glasgow in 1837

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David Jones Peck:
1. why important?
2. when and where?

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generally considered first African-American to grad med school in USA

Rush Medical College, 1847

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Elizabeth Blackwell
1. when?
2. where?
3. who did she work with?
4. What did they do?

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first woman MD in USA
1. 1849
2. Geneva MEdical College in NY
3. Emily Blackwell and Marie Zakrzewska
4. a)est the NY Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857
b)est the Medical College for Women in 1867

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler
(why important and when?)

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first African-American women in US to get MD

grad from New England Female Medical College in 1864

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Susan La Flesche Picotte
(why important and when?)

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first Native American women

Woman's Medical College of Penn 1889

cared for more than 1300 pts in 450 sq miles on reservation in Omaha

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Anna Broomall

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Woman's medical college of Penn 1971

attended clinical lectures at Penn Hospital with 8 other women (1869)

harassed

Professor of Obstetrics until 1903

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Georgia Rooks Dwelle

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1904 MEharry

1920 est Georgia's first general hospital for African Americans

born to a former slave.

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Antonia Novello

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first female and hispanic MD to be appointed to Surgeon General of USA (1990)

grew up poor, father died when she was 4, she grew up with a heart problem which was corrected as a teen.

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Rene Laennec

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developed the stethoscope

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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hadnwashing to reduce maternal death during childbirth. (20% --> 1%)

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Joseph Lister

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British

introduced antiseptic surgical tehniques to prevent wound infections

1860's

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Nobel Prize recipients for extracting insulin from the pancreas (4)

when?

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Banting, Best, McLeod, and Collip

1923

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Alexander Fleming

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Nobel Prize in 1945 for penicillin discovery in 1928.

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Helen Taussig
birth place?
disadvantages?
education?
advancement?
worked with?

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born in Cambridge MA

mother died when she was 11, dyslexic, lost hearing by the time she graduated with MD

grad from John's Hopkins 1927

ped cardiologist: worked on blue baby syndrome

with Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (1944)

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Connie Myers Guion
founded what? when?
revolutionized what?
first what? when?

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founded- the Cornell Pay Clinic in 1922

revolutionized- outpatient care for the poor in NY

first- woman professor of Clinical Medicine in US (1946)

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Connie Myers Guion (con't)
birth?
family?
hardships?

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born- 1882, 9th of 12 children

family- father died early in her life

hardships- put 2 sisters through school before sstarting MD

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William Osler

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introduced clerkships and residency systems