Girl Doctors? No Way! — 1946 | Flashback : Dallas

Girl Doctors? No Way! — 1946

by Paula Bosse

Photo from the UT Southwestern Library (click for larger image)

by Paula Bosse

Female medical students were fairly uncommon back in the 1940s, and, as this photo is described in the UT Southwestern archives, they were “so rare that they merited this photo captioned ‘Freshman Girl Students’ in the 1946-47 Southwestern Medical College yearbook, Caduceus.” I love this photo.

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Photo is from the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library and can be accessed here.

Click photo for larger image.

One Comment to “Girl Doctors? No Way! — 1946”

Southwestern Medical College — 1944 | Flashback : Dallas says:

September 27, 2020 at 10:36 PM

[…] Center — pertinent footage begins at the 6:49 mark.) There were a few female students, but very few. One can be seen in the top photo, the caption of which reads “Dr. W. W. Looney quizzes a […]

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