Word: flexner
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...evolution of the presidency, traced by James Thomas Flexner, author of a definitive biography of George Washington...
...Fourth Era. American medicine has undergone three major cycles since Abraham Flexner published his comprehensive critical report on medical education in 1910. The first period emphasized the general practitioner, who had broad-but rarely deep-training in the science and clinical techniques of his day. This gave way in the 1940s to a trend toward specialization as doctors realized that no physician could possibly be competent in all areas of medicine. During the post-Sputnik '50s and '60s, scientific research was assigned high priority and prestige, along with generous financing. The fourth era, if the most reform-minded...
Educational Overkill. The Carnegie report is the most revolutionary look at the education of American physicians since the Carnegie Foundation's Abraham Flexner studied the problem in 1910. Because students could then enter medical school directly from grade school or high school, Flexner urged a sharp increase in scientific training and no student contact with patients until the final two years of study. The ultimate result has been a kind of educational overkill. After pre-med courses in college, medical students often spend unnecessary and repetitive hours in classroom work. Although the system has created an extremely high level...
...national health-insurance plan, the Carnegie Commission views the current problem as "a mere ripple in comparison with mounting waves of problems to be faced when the financial barriers to health care are lowered." To meet a demand for ever more doctors, it urges medical schools to update the Flexner plan and to adopt a program that it says could fill the physician gap by 1980. Among its recommendations...