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- Title
ARTICLEThe Flexner Report and the Standardization of American Medical Education.
- Authors
Beck, Andrew H.
- Abstract
Discusses the Flexner Report and the standardization of America medical education. Three basic systems of how medical education was administered in the United States in the 19th century; Efforts by the American Medical Association in the second half of the 19th century for the standardization of medical education; Reasons why the standardization efforts were unsuccessful; Alteration of values held by the public and the medical profession by scientific breakthroughs by the turn of the 20th century, such as proving many treatments such as blistering and bleeding as irrational.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL education policy; MEDICAL education; MEDICAL societies; MEDICAL care
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, Vol 291, Issue 17, p2139
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.291.17.2139