Education
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia University.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia University.
She was instrumental to the development of cardiovascular treatment and preventative medicine. McBroom was the first black doctor to be accepted to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at University of Chicago in 1946 and Bachelor of Surgery from Columbia University in 1949.
In 1953 she earned her Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
McBroom interned at Bellevue Medical Center in New York City in 1954-1955. She completed her residency at Columbia University Research Wing and University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center in 1955-1957 and went on to her Fellowship in Cardiology at University Southern University, 1957-1958.
From 1958-1962 she was a National Institutes of Health Grants Research fellow, and at the same time was a Board Member at the Frederich Douglass Child Development Center and the Sidoha Yoda Foundation at University of Chicago. In 1960 as the heart specialist in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital she developed a new method to observe how atherosclerosis affects coronary blood vessel tissues.