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THE Carnegie Foundation has a dual function, to provide pensions for the profession in the United States and Canada, and βto encourage, uphold, and dignify the cause of higher education.β It is in connection with the latter that the trustees have undertaken a study of medical education in these countries. The report, prepared by Mr. Abraham Flexner, a trained chemist, is in many respects a remarkable document, the publication of which, we are not surprised to hear, has caused a great sensation. There is no country in the world with medical schools at once so good and so bad as the United States. It would be hard to parallel in Europe conditions so favourable to the study of medicine at Harvard or the Johns Hopkins. On the other hand, a very large number of the medical schools are on a purely commercial basis, and offer an entirely inadequate education.
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Medical Education in the United States and Canada . Nature 84, 332β333 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084332a0
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