page_title: Norah Schuster
section_title: Medical career
hierarchical_section_title: Norah Schuster / Medical career
caption_attribution_description: First meeting of the British Pathological Association, later Association of Clinical Pathologists, at Bristol. (left to right, back to front) - Arnold Renshaw, Hadfield, Davey, -, D. Nabarro, G.J. Greenfield, Pooley, -, Myott, N.H. Schuster, Embleton, Solly, Wordley, Dyke, Wright, Sladden. Wellcome Images Keywords: pathology, societies, great britain
context_page_description: Norah Henriette Schuster FRCPath was a British pathologist and the first woman to take the pre-clinical medical course at the University of Cambridge. She was the first woman to be appointed as a doctor at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and, in 1950, the first female president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists.
  A prize is awarded in her memory by the Royal Society of Medicine's History of Medicine Society.
context_section_description: In 1916, while still a student, Schuster worked as an unpaid assistant in the pathological laboratory of professor Henry Dean at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) in order to ease the staff shortage caused by the First World War. Edward Brockbank and the pathologist Edward Loveday encouraged her in her studies, and she qualified in medicine at the University of Manchester in 1918 and was awarded a gold medal. She was appointed assistant pathologist at the MRI in the same year, partly because of the continuing shortage of male doctors caused by the war and not without some opposition to the idea, thus becoming the first woman to be employed as a doctor by the hospital since its establishment in 1752.
  She became a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1922. A few years later, in 1925, she married the surgeon Marriott Fawckner Nicholls but continued to practise using her maiden name.
  After completing her medical studies, she left Manchester and took up junior resident posts at the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, and St George's Hospital, London. She was pathologist at The Infants Hospital, Vincent Square, London, and assistant curator at the museum of St George's Hospital. In 1927, Schuster was selected to be pathologist to the Royal Chest Hospital, London. In addition, she also worked for the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War, and at Pinewood Hospital, Berkshire. Later, she became a founder fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and was the first woman president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists in 1950.
caption: Norah Schuster at the first meeting of the British Pathological Association, 1928. (middle row, second from right)[9]
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