Women Pioneers
The first woman to receive a medical degree in America.
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell?
She discovered the proper structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The full name for PCOS.
What is polycystic ovarian syndrome?
The full name for AMWA.
What is the American Medical Women's Association?
What is the GRE?
She invented a test that determine a newborn's health. This is still standard testing protocol today.
Who is Dr. Virginia Apgar?
She discovered the elements polonium and radium and was the first person in history to win 2 Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
The condition when the inner lining of the uterus grows on the outside uterus.
What is Endometriosis?
What is advancing women in medicine and advocating for gender equity in and out of the healthcare field?
The medical specialty with the highest percentage of women physicians.
What is Obstetrics/Genecology?
The first female dean at a medical school in America.
Who is Dr. Ann Preston?
The first woman to win a Nobel prize in Medicine/Physiology.
Who is Dr. Gerty Cori?
These are various menstrual products females use during menstruation. (name 3!)
What are pads, tampons, birth control, menstrual cups, liners, etc....?
The different levels of membership AMWA has.
Pre-medical, Medical Student, Resident, and Physician Membership!
The number of osteopathic medical schools in America. (within 5)
What is 37?
The first African American Surgeon General.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders?
She discovered the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.
Who was Dr. Katalin Kariko?
The three diseases that the MMR vaccine protects against.
What are mumps, measles, and rubella?
The year AMWA was created. (within 10 years)
What is 1915?
The percentage of medical students in 2019 that were women.
What is 51%?
She debunked myths about menstruation and was the first woman accepted into the New York Academy of Medicine.
Who was Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi?
Two women awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry just last year for their ground breaking work with CRISPR-Cas9.
Who are Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Dr. Jennifer Doudna?
A complaint among current physicians is how tedious EHR are to complete. EHR stands for:
What are Electronic Health Records?
The former name for AMWA.
What is the Medical Women’s National Association?
The year that the PA profession was created. (Within 10 years)
What is 1965?