Ernestina Pérez Barahona
Chilean activist
Ernestina Pérez Barahona (8 August 1865, Valparaíso, Chile – 1951) was a Chilean physician and feminist activist known for being one of the first female students of medicine at the University of Chile and for being the second woman physician in Latin America, graduating just days after Eloísa Díaz.
Education
Pérez Barahona received her secondary education at the Lebrun Pinochet School. She received a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1883 and began her study of medicine later in the same year. In January 1887, she received her Physician and Surgeon degree and title. She left for Berlin in 1888, entering the Frederick Wilhelm University (now known as Humboldt University of Berlin). She took classes alongside men, but administrators installed a screen to prevent the other students from seeing her. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University. Two years later, she went to Paris to continue her studies.
Career
Pérez Barahona returned to Chile in 1894. She practiced medicine at San Borja Hospital and taught classes for female students at the request of President José Manuel Balmaceda.
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