History of Medicine
Students begin their GCSE History course with their development study. Covering 5000 years of history, the History of Medicine course examines the way in which ideas about the causes of disease, treatments and cures have developed from the Ancient Egyptians through to the twentieth century. Pupils are then assessed on their understanding of this unit in BOTH their GCSE History exams.
NEW ~ Doctor Who's Who?
Click on the icon on the left to view the new factfile for GCSE Historians. This gives an excellent summary of all the key individuals you need to know about for the History of Medicine unit. Click here to access.
Learning Resources
You can download PowerPoint presentations and other learning resources by clicking here or on the Help for Students icon. You can use this to help you if you have missed lessons and need to catch up. Please note some of these have been created using the new Offce 2007 package. If you cannot access these, speak to Mr Barrett who can convert them for you to access them.
Interactive Timeline.
Click on the Bouncing Clock to download a timeline covering the History of Medicine syllabus. This resource will help you put key individuals and discoveries in the correct historical context. It is a PowerPoint presentation full of images and hyperlinks to other PowerPoints.
GCSE Archive
Click here to view examples of excellent work by Arnewood GCSE historians. These include good research projects, interactive movies as well as the now legendary Penicillin role play.