“We entered in a body amidst jeers and groanings, whistling and stamping of feet by the men students, who had determined to make it so unpleasant for us that, from choice, we would not care to attend another. On leaving the hospital, we were actually stoned...”
– Elizabeth, WMC 1870

“At WMC it was such an inspiration to see women get the opportunity to practice medicine, teach medicine and even find research positions. At the time, women who wanted to attain positions like these faced closed doors virtually everywhere else.”
– Margaret, WMC ’48

“Even as late as 1968 women were discouraged and even prohibited from certain areas of medicine, such as surgery, at other medical schools across the country. At WMC we could become anything!”
– Janet, WMC ’68

“My most special memory is walking into a patient’s room at MCP Hospital with male colleagues and having patients automatically assume I was the doctor.”
– Beth, MCP ’91

“On a brisk winter morning during my second year of medical school [in 2000], we celebrated the founding of the Medical College of Pennsylvania... For the women of our present institution this represented 150 years of adversity met by triumph and tradition forever engraved into the pages of history. We stood together in honor of all those who came before us, who forged the path for women to become leaders in science and medicine.”
– Allison, MCP Hahnemann University ’02