Lucy Davis Phillips collection

In the early 1930s, Lucy Davis Phillips, Registrar of the University of Oregon Medical School, undertook a project to document the professional activities and trajectories of women graduates of Oregon medical schools. The resulting study took the form of a scrapbook and included photographs, biographical information, and a series of surveys that Phillips sent to alumnae that she could locate.

The surveys Phillips conducted as part of her work asked respondents whether they were married or single, if they were practicing at the time of response, their number of years in practice, their specialty, and what advice they would give to a prospective medical student. Gathering this information gave women the opportunity to reflect on the reality of their professional experiences. Included here are respondents' original completed survey forms and supplemental material analyzing the survey responses. These surveys were completed during the Great Depression and demonstrate the pervasive attention to economics, as well as the passion for pursuing medicine as a career.

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Robertson recommends living with a third or fourth year woman medical student in order to receive advice.
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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Sacrifices during practice are necessary.
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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Women should pursue medicine if it holds their interest more than "any other work."
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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According to Jocelin Robertson, women shouldn't be timid and they should be certain they want to study medicine.
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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"Women are not [ready] to accept [a] woman surgeon. There is too much [resistance] against it."
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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"To induce wealthy women who are leaving such large sums to hospitals to endow hospitals for women with women physicians and interns."
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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Dentistry may be a more "lucrative" specialty than medicine.
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |
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According to Nellie Vernon, a desire to work for "the good of her fellow man" is a necessary element for pursuing a career in medicine.
1935 | Other | Lucy Davis Phillips collection |

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