Abraham Flexner: An Autobiography
Autobiography
By: Abraham Flexner
Date: 1940
Source: Flexner, Abraham. Abraham Flexner: An Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, 70–71, 74–78, 80–81.
About the Author: Abraham Flexner (1866–1959) was a Louisville native who graduated at nineteen with a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University. After founding his own prepatory school and spending time in Europe, he wrote a study of American medical schools, which changed medical education forever. He eventually became the assistant secretary of the General Education Board and then founded the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1930. He served as director of that school until 1939.
Introduction
The United States, being a colony of Great Britain, not surprisingly based its early medical education on British policies. However, there were few hospitals and...
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