Johns Hopkins University (BA) Harvard University University of Berlin
Known for
Flexner Report
Spouse
Anne Laziere Crawford
(m. 1896)
Relatives
Louis B. Flexner (nephew)
Scientific career
Fields
Higher education Medical education
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University Rockefeller Institute University of Berlin Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study
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 education in the United States and Canada.[1]
After founding and directing a college-preparatory school in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Flexner published a critical assessment of the state of the American educational system in 1908 titled The American College: A Criticism. His work attracted the Carnegie Foundation to commission an in-depth evaluation into 155 medical schools in the US and Canada.[2] It was his resultant self-titled Flexner Report, published in 1910, that sparked the reform of medical education in the United States and Canada.[1] Flexner was also a founder of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which brought together some of the greatest minds in history to collaborate on intellectual discovery and research.[2]
^ abBrown, E. Richard (1980). Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press Ltd. pp. 135–159. ISBN 978-0520042698.
^ abBonner, Thomas Neville (February 1998). "Searching for Abraham Flexner". Academic Medicine. 73 (2): 164. doi:10.1097/00001888-199802000-00014. PMID 9484189.
AbrahamFlexner (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 is a book-length landmark report of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by AbrahamFlexner and published in 1910...
to the United States. It was founded in 1930 by American educator AbrahamFlexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger...
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father, Simon Flexner, M.D., co-wrote William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine (1941). (His uncle, AbrahamFlexner, was the educator...
educator AbrahamFlexner in 1898. Their daughter Jean Flexner attended the London School of Economics; their younger daughter Eleanor Flexner (1908–1995)...
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protocols had been developed and implemented. In 2020, the AAMC removed AbrahamFlexner's name from their annual award, claiming his 1910 report contained "racist...
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the American National Conference of Charities and Corrections, Dr. AbrahamFlexner spoke on the topic "Is Social Work a Profession?" He contended that...
dean of the College of Medicine in 1908, AbrahamFlexner was beginning his survey of the medical college. Flexner's survey resulted in the report titled "Medical...
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Hospital. Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld worked with AbrahamFlexner to found the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey...
law education. One example of such reports is the Flexner Report, written by educator AbrahamFlexner. This research led to the closing of low-quality...
admitted for long periods in those hospitals. His friends included AbrahamFlexner and Edwards Amasa Park, who helped to publish Hess's works posthumously...
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