Dr. Susan Dimock student at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, which allowed women to be trained in the medical field, but did not grant degrees to women. Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, who founded the hospital, was her mentor. She applied to Harvard University with the hopes of earning a medical degree from there, but her application was rejected.
She was admitted to the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1868, graduating in 1871 with honors. She spent a year observing hospitals in Europe, where she met Florence Nightingale. She helped make possible full coeducation of male and female students in the medical field.
In 1872 she was appointed the resident physician of the New England Women and Children's Hospital. She specialised in obstetrics and gynecology. She developed the first graded school of nursing in the United States, whith Linda Richards among the first to graduate. She was also the first woman to be admitted to the North Carolina Medical Society.
Dr. Dimock died when the steamship "Schiller" struck the Scilly Rocks in fog and sunk near the coast of Cornwall, England.
The New England Hospital for Women and Children was renamed the Dimock Community Health Center.
In 1996, the marble marker at her Boston grave was replaced with a more durable granite duplicate, and the original moved to her home town of Washington, NC, where it was erected as a cenotaph (FG memorial #60469549). She is also remembered, along with other victims of the shipwreck of the SS Schiller, at St. Mary's Old Town Churchyard on the island near the site of the wreck (FG memorial #65084774 and #65140301)
She was admitted to the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1868, graduating in 1871 with honors. She spent a year observing hospitals in Europe, where she met Florence Nightingale. She helped make possible full coeducation of male and female students in the medical field.
In 1872 she was appointed the resident physician of the New England Women and Children's Hospital. She specialised in obstetrics and gynecology. She developed the first graded school of nursing in the United States, whith Linda Richards among the first to graduate. She was also the first woman to be admitted to the North Carolina Medical Society.
Dr. Dimock died when the steamship "Schiller" struck the Scilly Rocks in fog and sunk near the coast of Cornwall, England.
The New England Hospital for Women and Children was renamed the Dimock Community Health Center.
In 1996, the marble marker at her Boston grave was replaced with a more durable granite duplicate, and the original moved to her home town of Washington, NC, where it was erected as a cenotaph (FG memorial #60469549). She is also remembered, along with other victims of the shipwreck of the SS Schiller, at St. Mary's Old Town Churchyard on the island near the site of the wreck (FG memorial #65084774 and #65140301)
Dr. Susan Dimock student at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, which allowed women to be trained in the medical field, but did not grant degrees to women. Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, who founded the hospital, was her mentor. She applied to Harvard University with the hopes of earning a medical degree from there, but her application was rejected.
She was admitted to the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1868, graduating in 1871 with honors. She spent a year observing hospitals in Europe, where she met Florence Nightingale. She helped make possible full coeducation of male and female students in the medical field.
In 1872 she was appointed the resident physician of the New England Women and Children's Hospital. She specialised in obstetrics and gynecology. She developed the first graded school of nursing in the United States, whith Linda Richards among the first to graduate. She was also the first woman to be admitted to the North Carolina Medical Society.
Dr. Dimock died when the steamship "Schiller" struck the Scilly Rocks in fog and sunk near the coast of Cornwall, England.
The New England Hospital for Women and Children was renamed the Dimock Community Health Center.
In 1996, the marble marker at her Boston grave was replaced with a more durable granite duplicate, and the original moved to her home town of Washington, NC, where it was erected as a cenotaph (FG memorial #60469549). She is also remembered, along with other victims of the shipwreck of the SS Schiller, at St. Mary's Old Town Churchyard on the island near the site of the wreck (FG memorial #65084774 and #65140301)
She was admitted to the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1868, graduating in 1871 with honors. She spent a year observing hospitals in Europe, where she met Florence Nightingale. She helped make possible full coeducation of male and female students in the medical field.
In 1872 she was appointed the resident physician of the New England Women and Children's Hospital. She specialised in obstetrics and gynecology. She developed the first graded school of nursing in the United States, whith Linda Richards among the first to graduate. She was also the first woman to be admitted to the North Carolina Medical Society.
Dr. Dimock died when the steamship "Schiller" struck the Scilly Rocks in fog and sunk near the coast of Cornwall, England.
The New England Hospital for Women and Children was renamed the Dimock Community Health Center.
In 1996, the marble marker at her Boston grave was replaced with a more durable granite duplicate, and the original moved to her home town of Washington, NC, where it was erected as a cenotaph (FG memorial #60469549). She is also remembered, along with other victims of the shipwreck of the SS Schiller, at St. Mary's Old Town Churchyard on the island near the site of the wreck (FG memorial #65084774 and #65140301)
