Healthcare/Medicine

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

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Healthcare: Healing Agent Trailer | Skillionaire Games
Healthcare: Healing Agent Trailer | Skillionaire Games

Video

Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education Professional Development

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?
What Makes a Good Citizen?

Lesson

Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2

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.

Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps
Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Brown, Lucy Hughes | South Carolina Public Radio
Brown, Lucy Hughes | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

"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...
Hunter, Jane Edna Iris | South Carolina Public Radio
Hunter, Jane Edna Iris | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8

"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
Ensor, Joshua Fulton | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

"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...
Walker Gill Wylie | S.C. Hall of Fame
Walker Gill Wylie | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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
Furchgott, Robert Francis | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“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
Evans, Matilda Arabella | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“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
Jane Bruce Guignard | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 70

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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
Dr. Matilda A. Evans | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 55

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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
William S. Hall | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame
John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

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...