Medicine and Public Health Revision

Below are a list of resources that will support your revision. The past papers are on a separate post below.

Your Easter Revision homework is available here:
Easter Revision Paper

Lesson Presentations
Revision Powerpoint - From the Easter revision session
1350-1750
1750 - 1900
1900 - Present

Medicine Clips:

A great online summary of everything

Medieval Hospitals

Vesalius - A great clip on anatomy

BBC William Harvey and his experiments


Public Health Clips:

Filthy Cities - BBC Documentary

Government and public health 1830-1850

John Snow and the Broad Street pump

Government and public health 1866-1875

Sewer King - Bazalgette - 1 hour

Government and public health 1875-1906

Why do we care about public health?

The National Health Service and Welfare State from Tony Ben


Example answers:

Example answer for a 12 mark question

American West Revision

This section has links to some good revision clips and some useful powerpoints and documents for revision. All past papers can be found on an earlier blog post.

Easter Revision Homework
Easter Revision American West Paper

Early Migrants

Frozen body mountain men

Mountain men montage

Early travels on the plains with the Oglala - BBC

California trail

Hardships on the trail

Problems on the trail

Wagon trail west - family

Miners 1840-1870

The effect on the natives - greedy whites

Gold in the black hills

Gold prospectors challenged by the army

Settling the plains 1860's

Sod houses

BBC Sod busters

Farming problems and solutions

Cowboys and cattle

Chisholm trail - Cattlemen and cowboys

Johnson County War - information sheet

The railroads

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

The last gasp of the native Americans

The way it was before the whites

The Buffalo

Crazy horse biography

Big Horn and Beyond - BBC

Wounded Knee 9mins

Wounded Knee 17mins

Overview to the American West

Overview questions

Gimme Five - revision sheets

Examiners Reports

These reports tell teachers and students what the examiners were looking for in past papers. They show what students generally did well on and areas for improvements with example answers. Reading these reports as part of your revision will help you avoid making the common mistakes which are made for each paper and show you what a good answer to each question looks like.

Paper 1: Medicine and Treatment

June 2010

January 2011
June 2011

January 2012
June 2012

January 2013

Paper 2: The American West

January 2010
June 2010

January 2011
June 2011

January 2012
June 2012

January 2013

Paper 3: Surgery

June 2010

January 2011
June 2011

January 2012
June 2012

January 2013

Paper 3: The Transformation of Surgery

Below are some of the past papers for The Transformation of Surgery unit. To get the source booklet you need to download the exam paper and click on the small paper clip symbol next to where it says " Source Booklet enclosed"on the front page.

Paper June 2010
Mark Scheme

Paper January 2011
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Paper June 2011
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Paper January 2012
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Paper June 2012
Mark Scheme 2012

Paper January 2013 (The source booklet is at the end of the paper)
Mark Scheme

Paper June 2013
Mark Scheme

Paper 2: The American West

Below are some of the previous papers and mark schemes for the America West Unit. More to follow.

Paper January 2010
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Paper June 2010
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Paper January 2011
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Paper June 2011
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Paper January 2012
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Paper June 2012
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Paper January 2013
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Paper June 2013
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Paper 1: Medicine and Treatment

Below are some previous papers and mark schemes. Later we will be adding June 2010, June 2012, June 2013.

Paper January 2011
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Paper June 2011
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Paper January 2012
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Paper June 2012
Mark Scheme

Paper January 2013
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Paper June 2013
Mark Scheme