ABSTRACT
In a series of bold moves in many countries around the world, it lifted the problem of medical education to a new plane. Dr. Simon Flexner, describing the medical school he entered in 1887, reported: It was a school in which the lecture was everything. The Flexner report produced an immediate and profound sensation. It touched off a reform movement which was already in the making. The conception of the medical school that had slowly developed at the few good institutions like Johns Hopkins and Harvard involved a four-year graded course, the first two years devoted to laboratory subjects: anatomy, physiology, and pathology; the last two years to clinical subjects such as medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. The influence of a Johns Hopkins or a Chicago would in the end reach every campus and every medical school in the United States.
