Portrait of Dr Emily Winifred Dickson

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Portrait of Dr Emily Winifred Dickson

Portrait of Dr Dickson, commissioned as part of the RCSI's Women on Walls Project. Dr Emily Winifred Dickson, LRCP&SI LM 1891, MB BCh BAO RUI 1893, FRCSI 1893, MAO, MD RUI 1896, was the first female fellow of RCSI. Born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, she began her studies at RCSI in 1887, two years after the College first admitted female students. Dickson enjoyed a distinguished academic career, winning a number of student medals and receiving her licence in 1891. She obtained her MB (Bachelor of Medicine, first class honours, with an exhibition prize) from the RUI in 1893, the year she also earned her fellowship of RCSI, a first for a woman in any college of surgeons in Ireland or Britain. She studied on a scholarship in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1894 on the opening of the Extern Department for Diseases of Women at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin, was appointed as its first gynaecologist; she also served as supernumerary assistant at the Coombe. In 1896 Dickson was appointed examiner at RCSI; another first for women in Ireland or Britain. In later life, she worked in Britain as a medical health officer and general practitioner.

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creator: O'Dea, Mick, 1958-

date: 2019

format: Portrait

identifier: RCSI/PORT/3/4

coverage: Twenty First Century

rights: *This electronic resource is made available by RCSI Library solely for the purposes of research, teaching and private study.*

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