title: Developing history of medicine in the University of Liverpool medical curriculum 1995-2005.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The University of Liverpool has always been innovative in its approach to medical education. The medical faculty's decision to switch to a full problem-based learning (PBL) medical curriculum from September 1996 represented an opportune moment for history of medicine to put a foot in the curricular door.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The history of medicine component was launched with an initial team of 3 staff members, although some 16 people have been involved in its development and delivery over the 10 years since it began. This paper is an attempt to construct and discuss the history of the course over the past decade, examining both the proactive and reactive aspects of its evolution, and how it has been perceived by students, the university and staff who have taught on it.
authors.affiliation: Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Quadrangle, Liverpool, UK. sheard@liv.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheard
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006809:Humanities / Q000266:history*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*