In this work we present a historical approach to the Physics teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo from 1913 to 1943. We observed that college Physics was essential to remodel secondary Physics curriculum. We pointed out the school's cultural selection through textbooks pointing to those that influenced and guided the institution's curricular changes, whose curricular focus, in Physics teaching, was created to deal with a social need. We went through the school practices focusing on microscopic relationships in the content studied and what we found materialized in the Physics content evaluations. Thus, we exposed pedagogic traditions, procedures and practices about the daily study of the institution that was intended to improve Physics teaching. Then, the subjects and exercises, of the analyzed written evaluations, were pedagogic needs created inside and for the school. These are not constant and uniform, once they depend on the society, and the school community and neither are the contents.
Textbook; Physics teaching; Teaching practice; Higher education
