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This paper deals with Korean women students graduated Tokyo Women Medical College from 1910 to 1945. This study traces the backgrounds of their studying abroad, college courses that they had taken, and their career path after graduation of medical college. These Korean students went to Tokyo Women Medical College since they did not have many options to study medicine during the Japanese colonial period. Unlike their expectations with the highest level of medical training, in reality, they had to face various obstacles to practice medicine as a woman with a college degree. Upon returning from Japan after graduation, they encountered many difficulties to practice medicine and provide medical services. For instance, it was not easy for them to get a proper job or to open their own clinic or get into the hospital in large cities such as Seoul. Moreover, they could not get a position in medical education even though they played a major role in establishing the medical school. Even though women doctors during this period did not have much public influence as an academic or medical authority, they tried to improve the medical conditions of women who desperately needed medical care. These doctors operated their own clinics with the disciplines of Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Internal medicine, which were mostly limited to the emphasis on the role of women. Despite the limits and difficulties, this paper sheds light on the fact that they contributed to introduce women medical education and that they disseminated medical information and knowledge for wellbeing of women and children. Their effort to improve poor medial conditions at those times cannot be overlooked.
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Tokyo Women Medical College, medical education, women doctors, colonialization period
