Download this document to see the topics that have been asked in the last 5 years of Edexcel GCSE SHP exams

History of Medicine revision games

Ancient medicine walk the plank

Ancient medicine revision diagram

History of medicine penalty shootout

Renaissance revision diagram

Grade or No Grade medicine revision game

Grade or No grade public health game

And these brilliant revision games from Ian Walker's winkersworld website

The History of Medicine revision

New for this year - medicine podcasts from BBC Bitesize:

Anatomy Diagnosis and Treatment Causes of disease Public Health Religion Surgery War

Paper Two revision topics

This year the special topic is

Changes in Provsion: increased access to medical advice and treatment, improvements in hospital care.

Reasons for the Changes in Provsion: high technology medicine and surgery, the influence of War.

The role of Key individuals: Lloyd George and Aneurin Bevan

You can use the following resources to help your revision:

Lloyd George Cartoons A couple of source questions looking at Lloyd George and the Welfare State

Lloyd George and Bevan A handout for a hotseating activity/debate between the two individuals - which made the greatest contribution to public health in the 20th century? I gave the rest of the class this handout so they could prepare some questions for the competitors

National Health Service podcast (pdf) Create a podcast to celebrate the first anniversary of the National Health Service. Interview a pensioner about the improvements that have taken place.

A Living Timeline of 20th C Healthcare (pdf) Students have to place the cards in chronological order and then work out the themes, before explaining which factor was the most important in improving medicine in the 20th C

NHS Storyboard frames (pdf) for an activity based around the pathe films launching the new NHS. Students have to write out a script for a silent version of a Public Service Broadcast. You need to use the following films from Pathe to show examples of what the government produced: It's coming! and July 5th before the pupils dub over this film without the audio: It's coming (no audio)

You MUST also check out the BRILLIANT powerpoints from winkersworld.com:

The Liberal Reforms

The NHS

War and Medicine in the 20th C

Science & Technology in the 20th C

Check out these fantastic revision films made by Miss Mancktelow from Walthamstow School for Girls:

 

 

and this one I picked up on youtube about Public Health in Victorian Britain:

 

and this one on Louis Pasteur and vaccinations:

 

and this one on Rosalind Franklin:

 

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson sources A series of sources and GCSE style questions

Sources about Roaslind Franklin

Sources about Seacole and Nightingale

Sources about penicillin

Penicillin factors mindmap

Fleming Sources and questions

Medicine - 12 key people (pdf) This is a series of revision cards that can be cut and pasted into a revision poster based on the key events in the Medicine course

Medicine top trumps (word) A revision activity with the 12 key figures from the Medicine course