University of Edinburgh Medical School

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/university-of-edinburgh-medical-school

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding era?Scottish Enlightenment (established 1726)
2. What is the nobel laureates?13 associated laureates (7 Physiology or Medicine, 6 Chemistry)
3. Why is the school so special?It is the oldest medical school in the United Kingdom and the English‑speaking world, and its teaching style has inspired many other schools.
4. How did the school help other universities?Graduates helped start five Ivy League medical schools—Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth—plus schools in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

Scottish Enlightenment: An 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement in Scotland that emphasized reason, science, and humanism.