1991 Flexner Award

Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.

Friedenwald Award and Lecture. Introduction of R. F. Brubaker, Friedenwald Award winner 1991.

Second Bristol-Myers Squibb Lifetime Achievement Award in Hypertension. 1991.

The second Bristol-Myers Squibb Lifetime Achievement Award in Hypertension is presented to Harriet P. Dustan, MD, for her outstanding contributions in the field of hypertension in its broadest scope—clinical, investigative, and public and professional education — and for personal leadership. Dr. Dustan received her undergraduate and medical education from the University of Vermont and her inter...

Abraham Flexner and medical education.

The Flexner Report had its roots in the recognition in the mid-19th century that medical knowledge is not something fixed but something that grows and evolves. This new view of medical knowledge led to a recasting of the goal of medical education as that of instilling the proper techniques of acquiring and evaluating information rather than merely inculcating facts through rote memorization. Ab...

Simon Flexner, 1911