In 1906 the American Medical Association was so disturbed by the condition of U. S. medical schools and by the laxity of state licensing requirements that it founded a Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools...
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