October 20, 2006

How to Redefine a Medical Education

By EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL

Almost a century ago, the report of the Flexner Commission, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, helped transform medical schools by calling for a greater focus on science courses. The report's recommendations included more-rigorous pre-med training and two years of preclinical science courses in medical school. Today, however, it is increasingly clear that medical education must go beyond the biomedical sciences and be reformed once again, at both the

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