Dr Ann Connor Jobe

After a career in nursing she trained as a physician and later become dean of Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia, when only eight women served as deans in United States medical schools.

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Dr Barbara Bates

In 1974, Dr. Barbara Bates developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.

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Dr Shirley F Marks

In 1973, Dr. Shirley Marks was the first Spelman College alumna, and only the second African American woman in twenty-three years to graduate from Harvard Medical School.

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