The Flexner Report
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The Flexner Report
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Author : Abraham Flexner
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Release Date : 1910-01-04
The Flexner Report written by Abraham Flexner and has been published by Cosimo Reports this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910-01-04 with categories.
"The improvement of medical education cannot therefore be resisted on the ground that it will destroy schools and restrict output: that is precisely what is needed." -Abraham Flexner, The Flexner Report (1910) The Flexner Report-Medical Education in the United States and Canada (1910) by Abraham Flexner is the foundation for medical education today. The report was developed to investigate American medical schools and provide standards for them since few guidelines were in place in the early twentieth century. The American Medical Association contracted with the Carnegie Foundation to conduct the study and chose an educator, Flexner, as its leader. The author personally visited over 150 medical institutions and, in some cases, harshly described the conditions which consequently forced the closure of numerous schools. This book-length report is an intriguing read for anyone curious about the foundations of medical education.
Flexner
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Author : Charles Vevier
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1987
Flexner written by Charles Vevier and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Medical categories.
In this new era of health care and high cost, insistent social demand, and advanced research and technology, there is a strong call among leaders and individual critics for change in the practices and operations in medical education. In the spirit of Abraham Flexner's 1910 Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada, this book presents a lively critique of the state of today's medical education.
Medical Education In The United States And Canada
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Author : Abraham Flexner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Medical Education In The United States And Canada written by Abraham Flexner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Medical colleges categories.
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.
Questioning The Premedical Paradigm
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Author : Donald A. Barr
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-04-05
Questioning The Premedical Paradigm written by Donald A. Barr and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-05 with Medical categories.
This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States. One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada helped establish the modern paradigm of premedical and medical education. Barr’s research finds the system of premedical education that evolved to be a poor predictor of subsequent clinical competency and professional excellence, while simultaneously discouraging many students from underrepresented minority groups or economically disadvantaged backgrounds from pursuing a career as a physician. Analyzing more than fifty years of research, Barr shows that many of the best prospects are not being admitted to medical schools, with long-term adverse consequences for the U.S. medical profession. The root of the problem, Barr argues, is the premedical curriculum—which overemphasizes biology, chemistry, and physics by teaching them as separate, discrete subjects. In proposing a fundamental restructuring of premedical education, Barr makes the case for parallel tracks of undergraduate science education: one that would largely retain the current system; and a second that would integrate the life sciences in a problem-based, collaborative learning pedagogy. Barr argues that the new, integrated curriculum will encourage greater educational and social diversity among premedical candidates without weakening the quality of the education. He includes an evaluative research framework to judge the outcome of such a restructured system. This historical and cultural analysis of premedical education in the United States is the crucial first step in questioning the appropriateness of continuing a hundred-year-old, empirically dubious pedagogical model for the twenty-first century.
Medical Education In Europe
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Author : Abraham Flexner
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Release Date : 1912
Medical Education In Europe written by Abraham Flexner and has been published by Cosimo Reports this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Education categories.
"...only by effective legislation can the general public be adequately protected from exploitation by an army of ill-trained doctors, quacks, and charlatans." -Henry S. Pritchett, Introduction to Medical Education in Europe (1912) Medical Education in Europe (1912) by Abraham Flexner presents further research by the author following his landmark study of medical education in the US and Canada in The Flexner Report (1910), also available from Cosimo Reports. The report contains Flexner's insightful assessment of medical institutions in England, Scotland, the German Empire, Austria, and France. Flexner's call for more rigid standards heavily influenced the European medical community. Funded by The Carnegie Foundation, this book-length report is for those interested in education and the medical world abroad.
Beyond Flexner
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Author : Barbara M. Barzansky
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1992-01-22
Beyond Flexner written by Barbara M. Barzansky and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-22 with Education categories.
For decades, educators, historians, and social commentators accorded major responsibility for the reform of medical education in the United States to the Flexner Report of 1910. More recently, historians have begun to challenge the impact of the Report and the desirability of the changes attributed to it. This volume takes the themes articulated in the Report and traces their development. With each theme being discussed by a specialist in the subject area, the book provides a comprehensive review of medical education in the twentieth century. These themes, many of which have not been discussed in other books, include the basic sciences, the clinical curriculum, women in medicine, black medical education, and sectarian medical education. In addition, the volume includes chapters on the evolution of the health care delivery system, trends in financing medical education, the use of outpatient settings for clinical education, the current status of the medical curriculum and needed changes, and health manpower needs. The work concludes with a chapter discussing the current proposals for change and how they relate to the problems and reforms of the Flexner era. The work will be of interest to medical school administrators, policy makers, and faculty members as well as to practicing physicians.
Educating Physicians
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Author : Molly Cooke
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-05-05
Educating Physicians written by Molly Cooke and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-05 with Education categories.
PRAISE FOR EDUCATING PHYSICIANS "Educating Physicians provides a masterful analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States today. It represents a major educational document, based firmly on educational psychology, learning theory, empirical studies, and careful personal observations of many individual programs. It also recognizes the importance of financing, regulation, and institutional culture on the learning environment, which suffuses its recommendations for reform with cogency and power. Most important, like Abraham Flexner's classic study a century ago, the report recognizes that medical education and practice, at their core, are profoundly moral enterprises. This is a landmark volume that merits attention from anyone even peripherally involved with medical education." —Kenneth M. Ludmerer, author, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care "This is a very important book that comes at a critical time in our nation's history. We will not have enduring health care reform in this country unless we rethink our medical education paradigms. This book is a call to arms for doing just that." —George E. Thibault, president, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation "The authors provide us with the evidence-based model for physician education with associated changes in infrastructure, policy, and our roles as educators. Whether you agree or not with their conclusions, if you are a teacher this book is a must-read as it will frame both what and how we discuss medical education throughout the current century." —Deborah Simpson, associate dean for educational support and evaluation, Medical College of Wisconsin "A provocative book that provides us with a creative vision for medical education. Using in-depth case studies of innovative educational practices illustrating what is actually possible, the authors provide sage advice for transforming medical education on the basis of learning theories and educational research." —Judith L. Bowen, professor of medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
The Homeopathic Revolution
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Author : Dana Ullman
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2007-10-16
The Homeopathic Revolution written by Dana Ullman and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-16 with Health & Fitness categories.
What do Mark Twain, David Beckham, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Mother Teresa have in common? All have been enthusiastic fans of homeopathy, the alternative medical tradition that treats “like with like.” Homeopathy has an incredible history of support by many of the most respected people of the past 200 years, and modern science is finally catching up. In The Homeopathic Revolution, Dana Ullman blends vivid personal stories and quotes from these and other luminaries from a variety of eras and fields with a new definition of homeopathy as “nanopharmacology”–one that will help people, including skeptics, start to understand its value. After explaining why conventional medicine is inadequately scientific, why homeopathy makes sense and works, and why it is so threatening to conventional medicine and drug companies, Ullman lets legends like Coretta Scott King, Cindy Crawford, Bill Clinton, Vincent Van Gogh, and other practitioners weigh in on the subject. By writing about homeopathy’s heroes and telling their stories, Ullman is able to reference and describe important scientific studies in user-friendly language that verifies the value of this widely used but still misunderstood tradition.
Rockefeller Medicine Men
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Author : E. Richard Brown
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1979
Rockefeller Medicine Men written by E. Richard Brown and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Charities, Medical categories.
Abraham Flexner
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Author : Michael Nevins
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010
Abraham Flexner written by Michael Nevins and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Abraham Flexner died in 1959 at age 92, a New York Times obituary declared, "no other American of his time contributed more to the welfare of his country and of humanity in general." Flexner's famous Report in 1910 and his subsequent work at the Rockefeller Foundation helped transform American medical education from crude to world leader. Later, as founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study he attracted Albert Einstein and other luminaries to Princeton. Notwithstanding these achievements, Flexner was hypercritical of others, often abrasive, and his self-assurance irritated many of his colleagues to his detriment. Moreover, he was an intellectual elitist who, like many of his generation, either denied or ignored certain moral hazards prevalent in America during his lifetime, including eugenics theory and institutional anti-Semitism. In this critical analysis, Dr. Nevins distinguishes between Flexner the progressive reformer and the humanly-flawed man himself.