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Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum
The insertion of history into the medical school curriculum has been discussed over a long period of time. But the role of history in the public health curriculum has not been the subject of much discussion, despite the changes in UK public health training and the advent of multidisciplinary public...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29590453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy058 |
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description | The insertion of history into the medical school curriculum has been discussed over a long period of time. But the role of history in the public health curriculum has not been the subject of much discussion, despite the changes in UK public health training and the advent of multidisciplinary public health. This article reviews the history of inserting history into the curriculum in a leading public health postgraduate institution. It discusses the strategies used to secure acceptance for history; the positioning of history within the curriculum both as a core and a special subject; and the different curriculum content and learning approaches which have been used over time. It reviews recent developments in distance learning and the launch of a history Massive Open On line Course. It concludes that no one approach can be recommended for inserting history and that flexibility, persistence, alliances and the willingness to adapt to local circumstances are important. Students themselves are now more receptive to historical approaches and can appreciate the value of a discipline which teaches critical skills of analysis and assessment of evidence. It remains to be discussed how the discipline and such approaches can be transferred into wider professional public health training and at the undergraduate level. |
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spelling | pubmed-63060892019-01-07 Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum Berridge, Virginia S J Public Health (Oxf) Perspectives The insertion of history into the medical school curriculum has been discussed over a long period of time. But the role of history in the public health curriculum has not been the subject of much discussion, despite the changes in UK public health training and the advent of multidisciplinary public health. This article reviews the history of inserting history into the curriculum in a leading public health postgraduate institution. It discusses the strategies used to secure acceptance for history; the positioning of history within the curriculum both as a core and a special subject; and the different curriculum content and learning approaches which have been used over time. It reviews recent developments in distance learning and the launch of a history Massive Open On line Course. It concludes that no one approach can be recommended for inserting history and that flexibility, persistence, alliances and the willingness to adapt to local circumstances are important. Students themselves are now more receptive to historical approaches and can appreciate the value of a discipline which teaches critical skills of analysis and assessment of evidence. It remains to be discussed how the discipline and such approaches can be transferred into wider professional public health training and at the undergraduate level. Oxford University Press 2018-12 2018-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6306089/ /pubmed/29590453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy058 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspectives Berridge, Virginia S Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title | Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title_full | Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title_fullStr | Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title_full_unstemmed | Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title_short | Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
title_sort | infiltrating history into the public health curriculum |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29590453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy058 |
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