Medical education: American medical education 100 years after the flexner report

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Cooke, Molly ^a,b   Irby, David M ^a,b   Sullivan, William ^b   Ludmerer, Kenneth M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL IMAGE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; TEAMWORK; ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749062559     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra055445     Document Type: Review

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