From Wilderness to Wards: How the Flexner Report Revolutionized Modern American Medicine
Thesis
In 1910, Abraham Flexner’s bombshell report triggered a revolution in medical education by prioritizing science over profit. While the immediate reaction decimated the number of doctors and marginalized minority physicians, the report ultimately established a reform of standardization that transformed American medicine from a trade into a profession.
"The student is to collect and evaluate the facts, facts are locked up in the patient, to the patient, therefore he must go."
-Abraham Flexner
Medical Education in the United States and Canada (Flexner Report) cover, c. 1910, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Lucas Zhang, Samuel Giesecke
From Wilderness to Wards: How the Flexner Report Revolutionized Modern American Medicine
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Word Count: 1198
Multimedia Length: 2:45
Process Paper Word Count: 498