The centenary of the admission of women students to the Belfast Medical School.

At a dinner in the Great Hall of the Queen's University of Belfast on the 12th December 1989 the Northern Ireland Branch of the Medical Women's Federation celebrated the centenary of the first admission of women to the classes of the Faculty of Medicine of the Queen's College, Belfast, and to the clinical classes of the Belfast Royal Hospital. In September 1889 a meeting of medical professors approved their admission to the College and in November 1889 the College Council authorised it.1 On 10th September 1889 the medical staff of the Belfast Royal Hospital recommended that lady students should be admitted to hospital classes2 and on the 14th September the management committee accepted their advice.3