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Opportunities for women were scarce, but thanks to the support of Joseph Hermann Schmidt, professor of obstetrics and the director of the school of midwifery, Marie Zakrzewska was promoted to head midwife in , despite the disapproval of other faculty and not long after she finished her own training.

German-born American physician who founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children and contributed greatly to women's opportunities and acceptance as.

After six months as head of midwifery, she moved to the United States to study medicine. In , Marie Zakrzewska, M. Her father was a civil servant from a noble Polish family, who had lost their wealth and property to the Russians in Her grandmother was a veterinary surgeon, and her mother worked as a midwife. Marie Zakrzewska emigrated to New York in March During her first year in America she found little support for a career in medicine among the male practitioners she met.

Encouraged by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, she enrolled at a traditionally all-male medical school, Cleveland's Western Reserve College, in She was one of only six women admitted to the school during the s, and she graduated with a doctor of medicine degree in Like others in this first generation of women physicians, she struggled to find work.

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Blackwell and her sister Emily, who was also a doctor, were planning to open a small hospital to care for women and children that would also provide opportunities for work and training for women physicians. Zakrzewska joined their fundraising effort. Marie Zakrzewska served as resident physician there for the next two years. In March of , Dr. Her students experienced the same difficulties that had prompted the founding of the New York Infirmary, and Dr.