Mitra Siuli, George Reena
Department Archives and Continuing Medical Education Christian Medical College Vellore, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore 632004, Tamil Nadu, India.
Natl Med J India. 2025 Mar-Apr;38(2):119-123. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_582_2024.
We introduce the stories of the lives of four women founders of four Indian medical colleges: Dr Edith Brown who founded the North Indian Medical School for Christian Women, Ludhiana (present-day Christian Medical College, Ludhiana); Lady Winifred Hardinge, after whom the Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi was named; Dr Ida Sophia Scudder who founded the Christian Medical College, Vellore; and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the cabinet minister responsible for the creation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. We highlight events and people in their lives crucial to the creation of the four institutions that have had a transformative impact on Indian medical education particularly for women. We observed that very diverse backgrounds and early lives prepared these four women for a mission that in its impact was very similar.
伊迪丝·布朗博士创办了卢迪亚纳的北印度基督教女子医学院（即如今的卢迪亚纳基督教医学院）；德里的哈丁夫人医学院以威妮弗雷德·哈丁夫人命名；伊达·索菲娅·斯卡德博士创办了韦洛尔基督教医学院；还有负责创建新德里全印医学科学研究所的内阁部长拉杰库马里·阿姆里特·考尔。我们着重介绍了她们生活中对这四所机构的创立至关重要的事件和人物，这些机构对印度医学教育，尤其是对女性医学教育产生了变革性影响。我们发现，截然不同的背景和早年经历使这四位女性为一项影响极为相似的使命做好了准备。
