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The Flexner Report [1] 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. Flexner not only described the state of medical education in North America, but he also gave detailed descriptions of the medical schools that ...
The Flexner Report and his work in education has had a lasting impact on medical and higher education. The specific impacts of the Flexner Report on American and Canadian medicine include: Average physician quality has increased significantly [13] Medicine has become a lucrative and well-respected profession
Make the work problem-specific and user centered: The Carnegie Foundation adopted a "learning by doing orientation" recognizing that action along with reflection spurs learning. The purpose of the improvement work is to design, implement, evaluate, and refine practices, but why do this work alone when a network will "form a robust information ...
Indiana Sopris Cushman, served on the History of Child-Saving Work Committee, 1893. [15] Mary Dewson, presented her paper, "The Delinquent Girl on Parole", 1911 [16] Abraham Flexner, presented "Is Social Work a Profession?", 1915 [17] Joseph Krauskopf, Missouri life-member of the board [18] Zilpha Drew Smith, speaker, 1884 [19] and 1892 [20]
Flexner's study of medical schools, the 1910 Flexner Report, played a major role in the reform of medical education. [17] Flexner had studied European schools such as Heidelberg University, All Souls College, Oxford, and the Collège de France –and he wanted to establish a similar advanced research center in the United States. [18] [19] [20]
Ludmerer criticizes the view that the Flexner Report spurred the advancement of medical education, crediting the report for spurring the closure of substandard medical schools, but noting that most of the innovations recommended by Abraham Flexner had already been initiated by the better schools by the time the report was written.
According to a police report and an interview with the inmate’s mother, the boy asked a female staff member if he could have another pair. She said no. So he asked another male counselor. According to the police report, the second counselor turned to the boy, grabbed his shirt and started to choke him. Another male staffer pulled the ...
Before the rise of modern states, the Christian church provided social services in (for example) the Mediterranean world. When the Roman Emperor Constantine I endorsed Christianity in the 4th century, the newly legitimised church set up or expanded burial societies, poorhouses, homes for the aged, shelter for the homeless, hospitals, and orphanages in the Roman Empire.