로제타 홀의 조선여의사 양성

Abstract

Rosetta Sherwood Hall was sent as a missionary doctor of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Episcopal Church in Korea in 1890. She worked at Po Ku Nyo Koan(or Salvation for All Women Hospital or Caring for and Saving Women's Hospital) and practiced medical service. At that time, she felt lack of medical member and started medical training class composed of a few girls. One of them was Kim Jum dong(Esther Pak). She made up her mind to be a doctor and went to America to study medical science with Hall when Hall returned America after her husband's death. I think Hall was contributed to First Medical Doctor, Esther Pak in Korea. Rosetta Sherwood Hall her colleague Mary Cutler thought it is necessary to unite with Presbyterian Church's Hospital and its medical member. So new hospital of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Episcopal Church should build near Presbyterian Church's Hospital at Namdaemoon. But her proposal was denied. In 1913, Rosetta Sherwood Hall started woman's medical class in Woman's Dispensary of Extended Grace with Mary Cutler. But woman's medical class could not manage well because of shortage of finance and doctor. She asked support to Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Church's mission board. But it did not work. So she met president of Government Hospital. She emphasized necessity of Korea woman physician and proposed coeducation of Medical Institute of Government Hospital. He denied her proposal but permitted entrance of Korean girls as special(irregular) students at Medical Institute of Government Hospital(It became Gyungsung Medical College in 1916.) At last, first three qualified women physicians educated in Korea were born in 1918. They got medical licenses from Government. After that a few women graduated Gyungsung Medical College as special(irregular) students and became physicians. But girls was not permitted as special(irregular) students from 1925. Korean woman physician training in Korea, Rosetta Sherwood Hall's vision seemed to be faced with crisis of stop. Rosetta Sherwood Hall went to Japan to meet Gil Jung Hee, a student of Tokyo Woman's Medical College in 1923 and proposed working together for woman physician training and establishment of Woman's Medical College in Korea. Finally Woman's Medial Institute, first medical school for woman in Korea was established by Rosetta Sherwood Hall with support of Korean women physicians and Korean influential people.