In 1867, Rebecca J. Cole became the second African American woman to
receive an M.D. degree in the United States (Rebecca Crumpler, M.D.,
graduated from the New England Female Medical College three years
earlier, in 1864).
Dr. Cole was able to overcome racial and gender
barriers to medical education by training in all-female institutions run
by women who had been part of the first generation of female physicians
graduating mid-century.
Dr. Cole graduated from the Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania in 1867, under the supervision of Ann Preston,
the first woman dean of the school, and went to work at Elizabeth
Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Women and Children to gain clinical
experience.
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Source: The Changing Face of Medicine
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