Wyburn studied Medicine at the University of Glasgow under Professor Thomas Hastie Bryce, graduating with an MB ChB in 1925.
He gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1938 and won the Struthers Medal in 1939 for his embryological research.
His proposers were Duncan McCallum Blair, John Walton, Thomas Hastie Bryce, and George Walter Tyrrell.
[3] In 1947 he won the Struthers Medal for a second time, jointly with Paul Bacsich, for their work on the repair of peripheral nerve injuries during the Second world War.
In the 1970s he made a study trip to Otago University in New Zealand and donated a high number of anatomical copper plates.