Talk:Rebecca Cole

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BORN:1846 in Philadelphia the website dosn't have that much info add to this one fact about rebecca cole
 * 1) she was the second african american to get a college degree

the amazing Rebecca Cole
68.202.159.97 18:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)madison Rebecca J. Cole was a great role model for women and chidren. i think people shouldn't take what she did for grandted because she did a lot for people and she didn't do it for herself.

I think Rebecca J. Cole was a wonderful and a hard working person. She did a lot in her life and I think she help other people to reach their goals in life. The reason why I said that is because I think that she showed people that they should work hard so they can reach their main goal in life. I also think that she should of least had some more records lefted on her because she is a very inserting person and I know their is a lot more of her story that should be told!

THE WOUNDERFUL REBECCA COLE
SHE IS so wonderful. I WISH I COULD MEET HER. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.20.142.138 (talk) 22:33, 9 April 2009 (UTC) jg.she was very important to this society and she was very successful in her lifetime.

Rebecca Cole Proposed Edits
Rebecca Cole born on March 16, 184 and died August 14, 1922 knowingly as a physician, organization founder, and social reformer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of five children all listed as “mulatto” in the 1880 U.S. census. Her parents’ names are not known. In 1863 Rebecca completed a rigorous curriculum that included Latin, Greek, and mathematics at the Institute for Colored Youth, an all-black high school. Dr. Cole was able to overcome racial and gender barriers to medical education by training in all-female institutions run by women who had been part of the first generation of female physicians graduating mid-century. Dr. Cole graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867, under the supervision of Ann Preston, the first woman dean of the school, and went to work at Elizabeth Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Women and Children to gain clinical experience.Fluddros (talk) 17:54, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Education Rebecca Cole went to an all-black high school by the name of The Institute for Colored Youth which was considered one of the more rigorous of the black schools of the time and its curriculum included Latin, Greek and mathematics. As a student Cole received a ten dollar award for academic excellence, good conduct and attendance. This was quite a sum in those days and served as a testament to her intellect and dedication. In 1867 Cole became the first black graduate of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the second formally trained African American woman physician in the United States. Dr. Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical school, served as Cole’s preceptor, overseeing her thesis essay, “The Eye and Its Appendages.” The Women’s Medical College, founded by Quaker abolitionists and temperance reformers in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the world’s first medical school for women. By 1900 at least ten African American women had received their medical degrees from the school. Fluddros (talk) 17:54, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Career After completion of her MD, Cole was appointed resident physician at the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, a New York City hospital founded in 1857 by America’s first woman physician, Elizabeth Blackwell, her sister, the surgeon Emily Blackwell, and Marie Zakrzewska, a German- and American-trained doctor. Cole worked as a “sanitary visitor,” making house calls to families in slum neighborhoods and giving practical advice about prenatal and infant care and basic hygiene.Fluddros (talk) 17:54, 10 April 2016 (UTC)