Report

By: Henry S. Pritchett

Date: 1910

Source: Pritchett, Henry S. Introduction to Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Abraham Flexner, ed. Bulletin Number Four. New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, vii–viii, x–xi, xiii–xvi.

About the Author: Henry S. Pritchett (1857–1939) received a bachelor's degree in 1875 from the Collegiate Institute at Glasgow, Missouri. In 1895, he received a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Munich. Pritchett was a professor of astronomy at Washington University, superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of M.I.T. He was president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 1905 to 1930.

Introduction

Medical education in the United States...