Medical Education in the United States and Canada : A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Bulletin Number Four by Abraham Flexner; Daniel Berkeley Updike; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.; Merrymount Press, - 1910-01-01

576 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1910-01-01. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to. xvii, [1], 346 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Softcover. Chipping and loss to wraps. Tape along spine. Back cover wrap absent. Wraps loose from book. Contemporary owner's name on upper right of front wrap of Dr. G.H. Bailey. Pen and pencil notation/underlining throughout. From the library of Dr. Gert H. Brieger. Dr. Brieger was the Chairman of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. BM 9: 447 (491). <br><br> A landmark work which precipitated major reforms in medical education. It recommended closing commercial schools and reducing the overall number of medical schools from 155 to 31, with the aim of raising standards. Includes frank evaluative sketches of each school based on site visits by the author. <br> Contents are: pt. 1. I. Historical and general; II. The Proper basis of medical education; III. The Actual basis of medical education; IV.-V. The Course of study: The Laboratory branches, first and second years; VI-VII. The Course of study: The Hospital and medical school, third and fourth years; VIII. The Financial aspects of medical education; IX. Reconstruction; X. Medical sects; XI. The State boards; XII. The Postgraduate school; XIII. The Medical education of women; XIV. The Medical education of the Negro; pt. 2. Medical schools [by state and province].