Becoming a medical student
Becoming a medical student
This chapter examines the women who decided to matriculate in medicine at Irish institutions in the period 1885–1922. It reveals that women medical students tended to come from well-to-do backgrounds and tended to attend the university closest to them, for financial reasons, although their choice of university also hinged on their religious beliefs and on which universities were open to women at the time. The reasons why women (and men) decided to take up medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are also discussed, and the chapter suggests that women students took up medicine as a result of personal experience, a sense of vocation and encouragement from their secondary schools.
Keywords: Irish universities, Irish medical schools, Women medical students, Social backgrounds, Higher education
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