Dagmar Berne (1866 – 1900) – the first female medical student in Australia
Read Dr Vanessa Witton’s article about Dr Dagmar Berne, the first female medical student in Australia. Dagmar Berne enrolled in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1885, she had connections to the Newtown area, attending Newtown Superior Public School, and practicing from a terrace in L’Avenue, now Warren Ball Avenue. For further information, please refer also to a more recent article about Dagmar published on the Dictionary of Sydney