Dr maude abbott biography wife

Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott March 18, [ Note 1 ] — September 2, was a Canadian physician , among Canada 's earliest female medical graduates , and an internationally known expert on congenital heart disease. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Babin was born in St. Andrews East , on 18 March William Abbott, who was then Abbott was home schooled until she was 15 years old.

In , she graduated from a private Montreal seminary high school. Abbott was admitted to McGill University's Faculty of Arts, with a scholarship, even though she had previously been rejected, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and received her BA in , graduating as class valedictorian and receiving the Lord Stanley Gold Medal. Admission was refused despite petitioning the faculty first privately and then publicly as the medical school administration was adamant in their refusal to accept a woman.

She was then accepted into medical school at Bishop's University and while there, was able to undertake clinical training at the Montreal General Hospital alongside medical students from McGill.

Dr maude abbott biography wife: Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott

Later in , she opened her own practice in Montreal, worked with the Royal Victoria hospital , and was nominated and elected as the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society's first female member. In , she opened an independent clinic dedicated to treating women and children. There, she did much first-hand research in pathology.