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Abraham Flexner (November 13, 1866 – September 21, 1959) was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher ...
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 Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to ...
Abraham Flexner, lead author of the Flexner Report (1910), a seminal study of medical education in the United States and Canada; Gunnar Myrdal, author of An American Dilemma (1944), a highly influential study of race relations in the United States
He and his father, Simon Flexner, M.D., co-wrote William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine (1941). (His uncle, Abraham Flexner, was the educator whose 1910 report led to the reform of United States medical schools.) Flexner died February 13, 2003, at his apartment in New York City at the age of 95. [3]
Abraham Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, reformer of American medical education, founder of Institute of Advanced study, Princeton. Simon Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, pathologist, founder and first director of the Rockefeller Institute (now University).
Flexner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Flexner (1866–1959), American educator, author of the Flexner Report; Bernard Flexner (1882–1946), New York lawyer, prominent member of the Zionist Organization of America; Eleanor Flexner (1908–1995), independent scholar and pioneer in the field of women's studies
By 1906, the AMA's Council on Medical Education had created a list of unacceptable schools. In 1910, the Flexner Report, financed by the Carnegie Foundation, closed hundreds of private medical and homeopathic schools and named Johns Hopkins as the model school. The AMA had created the nonprofit, federally subsidized university hospital setting ...