Abraham Flexner
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Abraham Flexner, an American educator, became best known for his role in the 20th-century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada.
Flexner, c. 1910
Flexner c. 1895
Left to right: Albert Einstein, Abraham Flexner, John R. Hardin, and Herbert Maass at the Institute for Advanced Study on May 22, 1939
Flexner Report
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The Flexner Report is a book-length landmark report of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. F
Abraham Flexner
…His work attracted the Carnegie Foundation to commission from him an in-depth evaluation into 155 medical schools in the US and Canada. His resulting Flexner Report, published in 1910, sparked the reform of medical education in the United States and Canada. In 1930 Flexner founded the Institute for Advanced Study…
The title page for the Flexner Report