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Martha Van der Vlugt, M.D., talks about her childhood in Switzerland, Illinois, and Portland and her education at Reed College and the University of Oregon Medical School where she earned her M.D. degree (1937). She recounts her years as a private practitioner in rural Oregon and her later experience as a foreign service medical officer. She settled in Washington, D.C., and worked at the federal Office of Personnel Management. She concludes the interview speaking about the issue of women in medicine.

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Title
Interview with Martha Rohner Van der Vlugt, M.D.
Date
1999 March 2
Creator
Oregon Health & Science University
Contributor
van der Vlugt, Martha Rohner, 1909-1999, Interviewee
Ash, Joan S. (Joan Stevenson), Interviewer
Subject (Topic)
Physicians, Women
Rural Health
Type
Interview
DOI
https://doi.org/10.6083/M4JW8CP9
Source
Collection name: OHSU Oral History Program
Collection number: 2018-007
Record Appears in
Historical Collections & Archives > Oral History Progam
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Publisher
Oregon Health & Science University
Language
English
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