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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 3D

History of Modern Medicine

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Examination, through illustrated lectures and focused discussion of primary sources, of five important themes in development of modern medicine: nature of diagnosis, emergence of surgery, epidemics, conception and treatment of insanity, and use of medical technology. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 366 · 5 terms · ± 0.028
A range
89%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.9%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 5422W
  • 11123W
  • 5924W
  • 11425W
Enrolment by term: 22W 54, 23W 111, 24W 59, 25W 114
Peak 114 Most recent 114 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 62 · 16.4%
  • A 232 · 61.4%
  • A- 30 · 7.9%
  • B+ 11 · 2.9%
  • B 10 · 2.6%
  • B- 7 · 1.9%
  • C+ 3 · 0.8%
  • C 2 · 0.5%
  • C- 2 · 0.5%
  • D 1 · 0.3%
  • F 6 · 1.6%
  • P 11 · 2.9%
  • I 1 · 0.3%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
O'BRIEN, ELIZABETH 3.80 3.80 209 3 91%
ALEXANDER, AMIR 3.78 3.78 157 2 85%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term