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This lesson specifically covers the extent of medical training for physicians, apothecaries and surgeons during the Renaissance period. Students identify what changed, why and then evaluate the most significant improvements.

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The 22 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide - Improvements to medical training in Renaissance England
• Slide 2-3: Warm Up - Students decide how long medical students have to train for in the UK today for various roles such as dentists, doctors and pharmacists. Answers provided.
• Slide 4-5: Recap - Students recap facts about medical training in Medieval England. Includes answers and challenge questions.
• Slide 6-7: Recap - Students recap 6 facts about the features of hospital care and care in the community in Renaissance England. Answers given.
• Slide 8-10: Task 1 - Students are given a sorting task and have to identify facts which suggest medical training did and did not improve. Also includes a challenge task, printable resource and answers.
• Slide 11: Task 1 Alternative worksheet
• Slide 12: Task 2 - Students identify 5 improvements in medical training before arguing which one was the most significant - sentence starters provided.
• Slide 13: Task 3 - Students now use a sliding scale of 1-5 to evaluate how much progress there was in medical training. Features an extended writing analysis.
• Slide 14: Challenge questions
• Slide 15-16: Learning Review - Students use 8 images to identify and then describe the main improvements in medical training in the Renaissance period.
• Slide 17: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 18: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the 4 mark ‘Similarity and difference’ questions with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 19: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 20: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 21: Information slide which covers the main factors which cause continuity and change in Medicine in Britain.
• Slide 22: More from RA Resources

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