Dr. Caroline McGill

One of Missouri’s First Female Physicians —

DR. CAROLINE McGILL was a classmate of Dr. Ruth Seevers. McGill may have been the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine’s first female faculty member, and taught anatomy at the University of Missouri – Columbia as early as 1905. During her time at the School of Medicine, McGill spent one summer studying pathology at the University of Chicago and was granted a fellowship for a summer of study at the Woods Hole Zoological Lab in Massachusetts, now the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.