Healthcare/Medicine

This collection features notable South Carolinians who have devoted their lives and careers to the fields of health care, medicine and science. 

Content Type
Healthcare: Healing Agent Trailer | Skillionaire Games

Video

Grades

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  • Higher Education
  • Professional Development
Healthcare: Healing Agent Trailer | Skillionaire Games
The Skillionaire Games trailer for the Healing Agent career video game offers a glimpse into the gameplay, showcasing how players step into the role of a healthcare agent solving real-world medical...
What Makes a Good Citizen?

Lesson

Grades

  • Kindergarten
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  • 2
What Makes a Good Citizen?

This lesson celebrates Dr. Lonnie Randolph, the July nominee of the South Carolina African American History calendar. Students will also discuss what it means to be a good citizen.

Georgetown, S.C. | Carolina Snaps Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps

Video

Grades

  • 6
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Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps
Orphaned at the age of six, Maude Callen, became an “Angel in Twilight” to many as she singlehandedly brought health care to a poverty-stricken community. After becoming orphaned, Maude went to live...
Burke, Aedanus | South Carolina Public Radio Brown, Lucy Hughes | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades

  • 6
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  • Higher Education
Brown, Lucy Hughes | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Brown, Lucy Hughes (1863-1911). Physician. A native of North Carolina, Brown completed her medical training at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. After practicing medicine in...
Hurricanes | South Carolina Public Radio Hunter, Jane Edna Iris | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades

  • 6
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  • 8
Hunter, Jane Edna Iris | South Carolina Public Radio
"H" is for Hunter, Jane Edna Iris (1882-1971). Nurse, social worker. Family circumstances forced Hunter to go into domestic service when barely in her teens. She was able to work her way through...
Ensor, Joshua Fulton | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades

  • 6
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  • Higher Education
Ensor, Joshua Fulton | South Carolina Public Radio
"E" is for Ensor, Joshua Fulton [1834-1907]. Physician. A Maryland native, Ensor had a distinguished career as a surgeon in the Union Army. After the Civil War, he became active in Republican Party...
Susan Pringle Frost | S.C. Hall of Fame Walker Gill Wylie | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades

  • 3
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Walker Gill Wylie | S.C. Hall of Fame
Dr. Walker Gill Wylie (1848–1923) was a surgeon and civil engineer—who developed operational procedures for the nation’s hospitals, organized the first nursing school at Bellevue Hospital, New York...
Furchgott, Robert Francis | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades

  • 6
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  • Higher Education
Furchgott, Robert Francis | South Carolina Public Radio
“F” is for Furchgott, Robert Francis [1916-2009]. Pharmacologist. Nobel Prize Laureate. When he was a young boy growing up in Orangeburg, Furchgott’s first interest was natural history. After...
Evans, Matilda Arabella | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades

  • 6
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  • Higher Education
Evans, Matilda Arabella | South Carolina Public Radio
“E” is for Evans, Matilda Arabella [1872-1935]. Physician. A native of Aiken, Evans attended Schofield Normal and Industrial School, Oberlin College’s preparatory school, and the Women’s Medical...
Jane Bruce Guignard | History of SC Slide Collection

Photo

Grades

  • 3
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Jane Bruce Guignard | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 70
Jane Bruce Guignard (1874-1960) was born in Aiken County, educated at the College for Women in Columbia (see Chicora College), and in 1900 entered the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. She...
Dr. Matilda A. Evans | History of SC Slide Collection

Photo

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  • 3
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Dr. Matilda A. Evans | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 55
Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1870s-1935) received an M.D. degree from Oberlin College in 1897, the only African-American in her class. She was a native of Aiken, and a student at Schofield Normal School...
Susan Pringle Frost | S.C. Hall of Fame Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades

  • 3
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Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame
This episode is about Maude Callen (1898 -- 1990), a Nurse-Midwife, who singlehandedly brought health care to rural Pineville, S.C. and the surrounding area of Berkeley County in the early 1920s...
William S. Hall | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades

  • 6
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William S. Hall | S.C. Hall of Fame
Dr. William S. Hall (1915-1995) -- William S. Hall, M.D., served as the Superintendent for the S.C. State Hospital and became the first State Commissioner of Mental Health in S.C. After WWII, the S.C...
Archibald Rutledge | S.C. Hall of Fame John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades

  • 6
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John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame
John Roderick Heller was born in Fair Play, South Carolina. He was a graduate of Clemson College and Emory University Medical School. In 1943, Dr. Heller was appointed chief of the U.S. Public Health...
Susan Pringle Frost | S.C. Hall of Fame Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades

  • 6
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  • 8
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame
Anne Austin Young was born in 1892. In a day when relatives and friends threw up their hands in horror at the thought of a woman physician and when people in her home town of Cross Hill referred to...