PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - N H Metcalfe AU - E Stuart TI - A short history of providing medical history within the British medical undergraduate curriculum AID - 10.1136/medhum-2013-010418 DP - 2014 Jun 01 TA - Medical Humanities PG - 31--37 VI - 40 IP - 1 4099 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/40/1/31.short 4100 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/40/1/31.full SO - J Med Humanit2014 Jun 01; 40 AB - This article aims to discuss the history of medical history in the British medical undergraduate curriculum and it reviews the main characters and organisations that have attempted to earn it a place in the curriculum. It also reviews the arguments for and against the study of the subject that have been used over the last 160 years.