Introduction to the history of medicine

This introduces the candidates to the topic. It looks very briefly at the way we level and grade the subject at examiner level and then moves on to the levels of ill health in todays world. The pupils will need a large sheet of paper between groups or pairs as the first half of the lesson requires conversation and then directed feedback to enable them to pool their knowledge. The second half requires them to produce an essay using the format of q4 from paper one in the Edexcel/Pearson GCSE paper, but it covers AO1 and AO2 with the secondary concept of causation. There is a suggested writing frame but you may need to create a more concrete version for weaker pupils. The second lesson will look at the division of causation of disease into the older categories of supernatural etc., rather than the modern bacteria, infection etc.