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John McGibbon
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 17/July/1906
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/February/1912
John McGibbon was born in Edinburgh in 1876. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1898 and served as House Surgeon at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1912. He became Chair of Obstetrics at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922 and later Chair of Midwifery at the University of St Andrews and Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Dundee Royal Infirmary. He was a founding Fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. He died in Crieff in 1949.
Year of medical qualification
1898
Type of medical qualification
MB
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.