[1] For their early education, Minot and her siblings attended the Bath Village School, a small three-room schoolhouse.
[1] She was soon hired as a lab assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she remained for five years, acquiring an interest in biochemical and physiological clinical studies.
During this period she published eighteen[2] scientific papers, and worked with the biochemical pioneer Willey Denis starting in 1917.
[4] Following graduation, in 1926 Minot was hired by Dr. Paul D. Lamson as a research associate in the department of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee for a $2,500 annual salary.
[1] In 1930 she became an assistant professor of pediatric research at Vanderbilt, investigating the effects of hormones on bone growth and studying fluid balance in infant diarrhea.