Jex-Blake obtained her medical licence from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, enabling her to practise legally in Britain.
On 1 May 1877, Sophia Jex-Blake obtained her licence to practise medicine from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, which had begun admitting women for examination following the passage of the Medical Act (Enabling) Act of 1876 — legislation her own campaigning had helped bring about.
After years of being denied a degree by Edinburgh despite completing the coursework, and after studying further and sitting additional examinations, Jex-Blake became one of the first women to be legally licensed to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. This licence allowed her to have her name entered on the official Medical Register, a crucial legal recognition that distinguished qualified women doctors from those practising without formal sanction.
This achievement was historically significant because it validated, at last, the years of struggle by the Edinburgh Seven and demonstrated that the legislative reform Jex-Blake had lobbied for produced tangible results. She went on to establish a successful medical practice in Edinburgh and to found the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women in 1886, extending opportunities to a new generation of women who wished to study medicine in Scotland, where the fight had originally begun.