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Simon Flexner Papers, American Philosophical Society Flexner and another scientist performed an autopsy on a young girl and although the bereaved parents insisted that the body remain intact, Flexner sneaked tissue samples out of the house in order to determine whether the epidemic was actually spotted fever as originally believed or an outbreak of meningitis. Flexner spent the next year doing autopsies, research, and lecturing and although he was confident in his abilities, he recognized that he could benefit from a period of German study, standard for young medical students at that time. Flexner conducted important research on toxins and diphtheria during 1893-1894, which contributed to the discovery of a cure and led him to inadvertently stumble on the phenomenon of anaphylaxis. www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/f/flexner.htm   (4423 words)

Flexner’s Impact on American Medicine Flexner examined the relationships of the medical school to a teaching hospital, the integration of teaching and working facilities into the general organization of fundamental laboratories at the medical school; unifying the medical school faculty and the hospital staff; and, affording professors the freedom to adopt necessary teaching arrangements (i.e. Referred to as the Flexner Report on Medical Education, Abraham Flexner's Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1910), was the catalyst for the closings of many Negro medical schools. Flexner’s Report provided a comprehensive roadmap for schools, state education, medical education, state licensure, public health, scientific research, public hospitals, and the elimination of several competitors of allopathic medicine. www.unmc.edu /Community/ruralmeded/flexner.htm   (2803 words)

Flexner Report - SCOME Wiki The Flexner Report, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), advocated radical change in the way medical schools were run in Canada and the United States. Highlights of the report included the fact that there were too many medical schools, that many were substandard, and that pre-requisites for the study of medicine and the content of medical education needed to be defined. Flexner introduced the concept of minimum requirements for admission to medical school: a high school diploma and at least two years of college or university level science. www.ifmsa.org /scome/wiki/index.php?title=Flexner_Report   (505 words)

The Flexner Report in Context (A History of the UCSF School of Medicine) Flexner argued strongly for placement of medical education within the structure of American universities, away from strict control of practitioners, and he emphasized the need to close substandard schools. For Flexner, the desired ideal was truly academic training, with clinical teaching in close geographical association with university science departments. Flexner's report included maps of existing schools contrasted with "suggested" geographic placement of his ideal number of schools for the future. history.library.ucsf.edu /themes/themes_flexner.html   (469 words)

Vanderbilt University Register: 1910 'Flexner Report' was turning point for School of Medicine Flexner's report was published in 1910 and is now regarded as one of the most important exposés in the history of medicine. Flexner was not a man for subtlety, and his report was full of vivid and uncomplimentary details about individual medical schools. Within years of the Flexner report, most of the medical schools in Tennessee, including the University of Tennessee's Medical School in Nashville, were shut down (the U.T. Medical School was later moved to Memphis). www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Dec03_01/story9.html   (957 words)

AAMC Reproter - Author Q & A: The Making of an 'Iconoclast' A: The report was the first completely codified attempt to bring together all of the reform suggestions about medical education that had been brewing since the Civil War and the advent of the modern university in the 1870s. Almost by accident, he hired Flexner at the same time the AMA, for its part, was trying to get support for its program to build up medical schools to increase the amount of science and admissions standards, the level of study, and to set a minimum three years for graduation. Flexner was a great money raiser, and was able to put money into schools that followed his model. www.aamc.org /newsroom/reporter/april03/iconoclast.htm   (1249 words)

Flexner Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Flexner Report is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Flexner clearly doubted the scientific validity of all forms of medicine other than the allopathic, deeming any approach to medicine that did not employ drugs to help cure the patient as tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Osteopathic medical schools had fought hard over the years for their independence from allopathic medicine, and resented being included in Flexner's report, which concluded that the standards of osteopathic schools were in fact substantially lower. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flexner_Report   (2042 words)

Flexner At the time of Flexner’s investigation, Johns Hopkins was developing the German style of medical education that Flexner admired, and so he used this school as his model for comparison. Flexner initiated one of these grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, but other funding from both the public and private arena followed, most of which went to Flexner’s approved schools. Because of this criticism, and because the funding trend sparked by the report widened the financial gap between the elite and poor institutions, more than half of these schools were forced to close down by 1930 (Duffy 209). www.uab.edu /reynolds/MajMedFigs/Flexner.htm   (525 words)

Premed, MCAT Books, Medical School Admissions and Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) Abraham Flexner was a professional educator who was hired by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education to evaluate the condition of medical education in America and to make suggestions for the future. His report was published in 1910 and would stand as the gold standard on medical education for decades. In his report, Flexner concluded that there were too many medical schools, many were substandard, and prerequisites for the study of medicine and the content of medical education had to be defined. www.futuredoctor.net /history.shtml   (803 words)

Chapter 33: The Carnegie Bulletins Now, upon his return to New York in the spring of 1913, Abraham Flexner embarked upon a new career as a member of the GEB where he served as Assistant Secretary of the Board from 1913 to 1917, as Secretary from 1917 to 1925, and as a Trustee of the Board from 1914 to 1928. Flexner told him plainly that the Harvard application was not acceptable and that it would have to be totally revised if it was to be seriously considered by the Board. Thanks to the patience of Dr. Welch and the coaching of Flexner, the entire Hopkins faculty was at last supportive of the clinical full-time plan and, on 21 October 1913, Welch submitted a formal application to the General Education Board for a grant of $1.5 million to support establishment of three clinical full-time appointments. elane.stanford.edu /wilson/Text/33b.html   (3514 words)

Flexner Report...Birth Of Medical Education - Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - MedicineNet.com Abraham Flexner was not a doctor but was a secondary school teacher and principal for 19 years in Louisville, Kentucky (where this writer's uncle was one of his students). For the Carnegie Foundation, Flexner researched, wrote and in 1910 published a report entitled "Medical Education in the United States and Canada." It is known today as the Flexner Report. The Flexner Report caused many medical schools to close down and most of the remaining schools were reformed to conform to the Flexnerian model. www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8795   (369 words)

The Amazing Logistics of Flexner's Fieldwork   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) The Flexner Report(1) is one of the most cited evaluations of medical education in the twentieth century. Flexner's rapid pace seems to conflict with the Report's assertion that Flexner spared no effort "to procure accurate and detailed information as to facilities, resources, and methods of instruction."(1) His task was indeed ponderous. Flexner A. Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Bulletin No. 4. www.haciendapub.com /hiatt.html   (1212 words)

Abraham Flexner Summary Abraham Flexner was born on Nov. 13, 1866, in Louisville, Ky. He attended the Louisville High School and returned to it as a teacher after his graduation from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Flexner followed this with an investigation of prostitution in Europe and with further research and writing on problems of teaching. He then became a member of research staff at the Carnegie Foundation (1908), which resulted in the "Flexner Report", which examined the state of American medical education and led to far-reaching reforms in the way doctors were trained. www.bookrags.com /Abraham_Flexner   (644 words)

The Necessary Future of Chiropractic Education The report renounced the plethora of private and proprietary medical schools of that era, and established scientific medicine and clinical teaching within a university system as the gold standard for teaching medicine. Flexner simply graded the schools based on this knowledge.Perhaps the greatest mystique of the Flexner Report is how successfully the recommendations were followed. One reason for the enormous impact of the report was the huge financial resources that were allotted to those schools that followed the recommendations of the report. www.chirobase.org /03Edu/wyatt.html   (3279 words)

New Page Flexner’s model, as Professor Rosner has pointed out, created a hierarchy in which the interests of the medical school dominated the tripartite relationship among medical school, hospital, and university, in keeping with the Hopkins example. Although Flexner’s recommendations seem like sound advice in the context Progressive era educational reforms, and the tendency towards standardization, it is important to note that many of the changes that Flexner advocated had been entertained by PandS and Columbia administrators prior to the publication of his report. Flexner’s model was tribute to the sovereignty of scientific education, through which he hoped to raise the status of medical schools. beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /cuhistory/archives/Robilotti.htm   (4618 words)

THE HEALTH CARE MESS... THE FLEXNER REPORT Flexner, for his part, had no medical training, so it's hard to figure exactly why he was chosen other than for his sibling connection. Because of his own predisposition, Flexner determined that America should adopt the German model for medical education and the American school he chose as the example was Johns Hopkins. The number of schools is variously reported from 147 to 160 but allowing for the pace of travel, under the most optimal travel mode available at the time, train, many have calculated that he could not have allowed for more than 1.1 days per visit. www.etherzone.com /2005/beam071205.shtml   (954 words)

THE HEALTH CARE MESS... FLEXNER VALIDITY & AFTERMATH Flexner had an axe to grind and grind it he did. Another question of the validity of Flexner's recommendations is that a representative of the AMA accompanied him on many of his evaluations. Flexner and the AMA never publicized their connection, a fact which would have likely resulted in a far different evaluation of his motives and his report. www.etherzone.com /2005/beam071405.shtml   (714 words)

Miller Guide to Flexner Papers Since the Flexner papers are of primary importance to historians of twentieth century American science, the author decided to include a description of all those series of correspondence which amount to one or more files in addition to those files originally selected for inclusion in the guide. In 1899 Flexner was appointed chairman of a commission to study the existing diseases in the newly acquired Philippine Islands; there he isolated the causative bacillus of a type of dysentery often fatal to the inhabitants. Flexner was appointed director of the new Institute. www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/flexner/flextext.htm   (2383 words)

Intuition Flexner evidently was neither a scientist nor a clinician. Exalting the Flexner report to the status of the bible of "scientific" medicine, the AMA also used that report as a lethal weapon to effectively squelch all other healing arts. It is not surprising that Flexner, a theorist and a non-clinician, mistook a clinician's intuition as a form of vitalism in 1910. www.majidali.com /intuitio.htm   (3011 words)

The learned report on teacher education: a vision delayed Change - Find Articles The Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada, named for its writer Abraham Flexner, would lead to closure of half the medical schools in the country and determine the way physicians are trained to this day. With the cacophony of voices calling for a modern Flexner Report to act as a lever for a massive overhaul of teacher education, we think this is the time to revisit the findings and recommendations of Learned and his colleagues. The state superintendent noted in his 1915 annual report that "the average amount of schooling of a grade school teacher is 41 months above the 8th grade," with most of it in local high schools by instructors who were often graduates of the same schools. findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1254/is_5_37/ai_n15966252   (850 words)

Flexner's View of Homeopathic Schools: An Excerpt from the Flexner Report (1910) In 1908, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching commissioned Abraham Flexner to study and report on the schools of medicine in the United States. His landmark report—Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching—was published in 1910. Chapter X of the report dealt with schools whose teachings were fundamentally irrational and based on dogma. www.homeowatch.org /history/flexner.html   (3166 words)

SCIENCE POLICY: ON THE PHYSICIAN-SUPPLY DEBATE One effect of the revolution that resulted from the Flexner report was a decrease in the supply of physicians owing to the closing of medical schools that were considered educationally deficient. A 1932 report by a commission on medical education concluded that the supply of physicians in the US was more than ample as compared with ratios of physicians to populations in Europe. The number of medical school graduates had increased to levels that obtained before the Flexner report by the early 1930s and grew in parallel to the growth of the US population in the years from 1930 to 1960. scienceweek.com /2004/sb040827-3.htm   (1715 words)

Abraham Flexner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Abraham Flexner (November 13, 1866, Louisville, Kentucky - September 21, 1959) was an American educator. Flexner soon conducted a related study of medical education in Europe. With Louis Bamberger, Flexner founded the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, heading it from 1930 to 1939. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Flexner   (525 words)

Chapter 31: Findings of Flexner Report Contested The Report was brought to the attention of the Faculty on 20 June 1910 and Dr. Ophüls was appointed to prepare a statement for President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation to be submitted to him by the Dean. The statement made in the report with regard to post mortems is correct, as it seems to us, so far as present conditions are concerned; and it was only with these that the report undertook to deal, as was made clear in the introduction, page xvi. The report by Flexner on the Cooper Medical College was harsh and in part unjust, but it served to stimulate changes and to further the efforts of those who held that medicine should be a part of the work of a university. elane.stanford.edu /wilson/Text/31c.html   (2362 words)

The Flexner report (Steve Harris)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) Keep in mind that > vitalistic/humanistic medicine was legislated out of existence with the > acceptance of the Flexner report in 1909. The Flexner report merely kept people from getting "MD" degrees by one year school or (for that matter) mail-order; it had zero impact on any other kind of health practitioners. For example, chiropractic was legal in all states at the time of the report, and it remains so now. yarchive.net /med/flexner_report.html   (282 words)

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