Abraham Flexner's Lack Of Medical Education

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Abraham Flexner visited every medical school in the country. Abraham Flexner wrote Medical Education in the United States and Canada. most medical schools were anxious to discuss their problems and shortcomings while extending their full cooperation to Flexner in assessing their situations. Flexner became the unchallenged arbiter of educational reform in America and helped create a system that even today is associated with his name after publication of a report as to what an ideal medical school should look like as Johns Hopkins University was a model institution. The Flexner Report came out as a devastating indictment of the lack of quality medical education in the United States. - He urged that standards concerning the admission of students