It took half a century...from 1862 when Elizabeth Garrett wrote to the Royal College of Surgeons of England requesting permission to sit their examinations, and 1865 when she wrote again unsuccessfully - once she had qualified LSA and was on the General Medical Register - asking whether `a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, being a lady, could enter for the Membership of the College', until at last, after repeated rebuffs and rejections, in November 1911, Dr Eleanor Davies-Colley joined two younger brothers as Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS. It was 1919 before further women doctors began to join her. The Fellowship of Women tells how in the next fifty years to 1970 determined women doctors became surgical Fellows - the first two hundred women doctors who achieved the FRCS.
Two World Wars conferred great opportunities on women to gain surgical expertise. When denied positions, they founded their own hospitals. At the zenith there was a myriad of women- for-women's hospitals in Britain, all now closed. The women surgeons went to India and to Africa, some with missionary zeal, some with humanitarian intent, all benefiting by the surgical experience. Marriage and children did not deter them, particularly the early pioneers. Some set up house together, some stayed single, some adopted children. Profound changes from 1911 to 1970 are mirrored in the responses to a questionnaire sent to women surgical Fellows on the College lists in 1981 offering an insight into attitudes to combining work and life. The Fellowship of Women contributes to the understanding of the social, feminist and medical history of the time.
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Mrs Ghilchik goes on to chart the history of the early and succeeding Fellows, emphasizing the role of women in women's hospitals and the effect of World War II, when the role of women as surgeons could not be held in check. The Fellowship of Women ends with the suggestion that even in modern times the numbers of women Fellows have been less than they might have been. In the anniversary year of women Fellows (1911-2011) is it now more or less easy for women to have a career as a surgeon than it was at other times?
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Margaret Ghilchik (nee Childe) did her medical training at Barts, during which time she spent an inspirational year at Johns Hopkins University in biochemistry research. Her house jobs were on the Surgical Professorial Unit and the thoracic surgery unit and she was RSO for 2 years at Harold Wood Hospital, Essex getting valuable experience before her FRCS 1967. She was Professor Harold Ellis' registrar at the Westminster Hospital for a year before going on to St Mary's as a Lecturer in Surgery from where she became Consultant Surgeon at St Charles' Hospital, Ladbroke Grove and Senior Lecturer at St Mary's. Her Master of Surgery thesis was on Localisation of the Parathyroid Glands and she worked extensively in the Breast field making seminal contributions in research with the steroid chemists. Committed to a service to women, she also took sessions at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and later at the Central Middlesex.
After being a tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons, she became the first female Penrose May Tutor, running the FRCS course. She has been a member of WiST since its inception and a regional representative and an assiduous attender at WinS. She is married and has four children, born after she became a consultant and was operating up to the day they were born, then taking her annual holiday. In retirement she has worked at Cheltenham, Wigan, Crewe, Birmingham City, Dudley Road and the Countess of Chester Hospitals.
She has written a book The Fellowship of Women : two hundred surgical lives 1911 to 1970. to celebrate the centenary of the first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the book goes on to describe the life and times of the surgical Fellows who followed.
After being a tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons, she became the first female Penrose May Tutor, running the FRCS course. She has been a member of WiST since its inception and a regional representative and an assiduous attender at WinS. She is married and has four children, born after she became a consultant and was operating up to the day they were born, then taking her annual holiday. In retirement she has worked at Cheltenham, Wigan, Crewe, Birmingham City, Dudley Road and the Countess of Chester Hospitals.
She has written a book The Fellowship of Women : two hundred surgical lives 1911 to 1970. to celebrate the centenary of the first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the book goes on to describe the life and times of the surgical Fellows who followed.
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