The Abraham Flexner Award. Lister Hill

Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.

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...

Did Abraham Flexner spark the founding of CMAJ?

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications

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Abraham Flexner as critic of British and Continental medical education.

When Abraham Flexner landed in England in October 1910, he was already well known in British medical circles. His report on medical education in the United States and Canada, published earlier in the year, had been widely distributed in Europe by Nicholas Murray Butler, an influential trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. When Flexner called on the president of the...