Medical Education in the United States and Canada

A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• Author(s): Abraham Flexner,
• Publisher: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Pages: 346
• Language: en

Description:... A landmark work which precipitated major reforms in medical education. It recommended closing commercial schools and reducing the overall number of medical schools from 155 to 31, with the aim of raising standards. Includes frank evaluative sketches of each school based on site visits by the author.