Our Throwback Thursday photo comes courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia and the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives. The caption explains: “This posed photograph of the dissection laboratory of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) from the 1910 yearbook conveyed the reassuring idea that the study of medicine, even anatomy, could be orderly and lady-like. The opening of Quaker-supported WMCP in 1850 and founding of Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia (1861) made Philadelphia the home of many early women physicians and surgeons.”
While there is still progress to be made on the state of women in medicine, AAMC data released yesterday shows that in 2020, women made up 53.4% of applicants, 53.6% of matriculants, and 51.5% of total enrollment to medical schools. This is the second year in a row that women made up the majority of all three groups, and the proportion of women in all three categories has increased annually in recent years.------------------------------
Stephanie Weiner
Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
Association of American Medical Colleges
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