U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for November 27

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27: FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN

Profile America — Saturday, November 27th.  The first school to provide training for women doctors in the nation opened this month in 1848 — the Boston Female Medical School.  At the time, it had a faculty of two and 12 students.  By 1874, the school had graduated almost 100 physicians. That year, it merged with the Boston University School of Medicine to form the world's first coed medical teaching facility.  In recent years, nearly 16,000 medical degrees have been conferred annually in the U.S., almost exactly 50 percent earned by women.  Across the nation, there are 877,000 physicians and surgeons, 31 percent of them women.  In addition, women make up just over 27 percent of the country's dentists.  You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 3164

              Statistical Abstract of the United States 2010, t. 603, 293

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