Medicine through time

Note - this post will be tidied up and added to later on. Published ‘early’ as a response to this post on the schoolhistory.co.uk forum.
When I began teaching the medicine course I opted to cover things in chronological order and stuck to developing understanding of content and retention of knowledge far too much. Whilst the […]

The Medicine in Film post highlights a range of feature films that include useful clips. TV offers a much larger list of programmes, series, documentaries etc that are of use. I’ve opted to ignore Historical Documentaries as they’re rather ‘obvious’ sources of content, so without any Shama, Starkey or Wood, here’s my ‘top five’ suggestions […]

Making use of movies in the medicine through time classroom.
One of the big problems with parts of the Medicine course is getting students to think in context. They often find it hard to accept or believe that people in different periods of time may have thought differently about things; they sometimes fall into the trap […]

Welcome to medicinethroughtime.co.uk
Main features of the site:
- This Blog - the plan for the blog is to have a weekly teaching related item, discussing ways of improving teaching and learning of aspects of Medicine through Time. It will also include items for students studying GCSE History along with polls and related posts / discussions and […]