Sara Rosa M. Bendahan (1906–1946) was a physician and the second Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in that country.
[1] However, due to the deaths of family and friends she initially left medical school without graduating, needing only to complete her thesis and examination.
[3] She was appointed by her graduating classmates to give the speech at the ceremony where she was awarded the title, Doctor of Medical Sciences, becoming the first Venezuelan woman to earn that degree in her country.
The man became familiar with the presence of Eva in the classrooms and today in all the faculties numerous female students are studying, we are happy to anticipate that next year two intelligent compatriots of ours will finish their medical studies.”[3]In her speech notes, she acknowledges other female trailblazers in medicine.
"To the memory of Dr. Virginia Pereira Álvarez, the first woman who attempted medical studies in Venezuela, but who finally carried them out in the United States; Lya Imber, who was the first woman to graduate as a doctor in Venezuela as a foreigner; and Elizabeth Garret Anderson, the first woman in the world to embrace Medical Sciences, thus signaling a new era for those of her sex.