The Doctor and Surgeon
- When World War 2 ended, Arthur Wint began studying Medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London through a Colonial Development and Welfare scholarship.
- 1953 - he ran his final race at Wembley Stadium in London and graduated as a Doctor. He did his internship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
- 1954 - Arthur Wint was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1955 - Wint returned to Jamaica and worked at the Surgical Unit of the University College of the West Indies.
- 1958 - He returned to England to study Surgery. He worked at Altrincham General Hospital, Cheshire, while instructing in Anatomy at Manchester University.
- 1962 - Jamaica gained Independence from Britain, and Wint was brought home for the celebrations. He carried the torch into the National Stadium and lit the flame for the Central American and Caribbean Games, which took place immediately after the Independence celebrations.
- 1963 - He gained the post-graduate degree FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons), following which the family returned to live in Jamaica.
- 1963-1973 - He worked at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), the Bustamante Children's Hospital and Falmouth General Hospital. He was then appointed Senior Medical Officer at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover where, for many years, he was the only doctor in the parish. He also had a surgery in the town of Green Island.
- In 1974 he was appointed High Commissioner to England.
- While in England, he took the opportunity to augment his profession and studied Forensic Medicine and gained a Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence (Clinical).
- 1978-1985 - Following his appointment as High Commissioner, Arthur Wint returned to Jamaica taking up the post of Senior Medical Officer and Surgeon at Linstead Hospital in St. Catherine.
- 1981-1982 - Wint merged his love of sports and medicine and was a founding member of the Sports Medicine Association and received the Careeras Foundation's Certificate of Merit for is work in Sports Medicine.
- Arthur Wint retired from hospital work in August 1985 but continued running his own private practice until his passing in 1992.
Wint merged his two loves and became a founding member of the Jamaica Sports Medicine Association.
Arthur Stories
When working in the rural communities, Dr. Wint usually had his surgery downstairs of his house. He often had humorous stories about peculiar ailments presented by his patients. There was one occasion, however, when he was NOT amused. Before dawn, a patient entered the house and came upstairs to wake up Dr Wint. He wanted to be seen early and first. The patient was forced to make a hasty retreat when the goodly doctor threw his bedroom slippers at him and told him to go and sit in the waiting room like other patients! One presumes he had a leisurely breakfast that morning