Abraham Flexner and the Flexner Report

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Flexner Report in the early 20th century is often credited with changing the medical field and shaping what medical education looks like today. But this document negatively impacted medicine in the black community.

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0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Frye.
0:45.2	And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:47.1	Tracy, one of the topics that's come up a couple of times for me in recent weeks
0:51.4	is I've just been doing my own reading related to racial injustice
0:54.7	is the Flexner Report.
0:56.5	And this was a report that was issued in the early 20th century.
0:59.9	It is often credited with changing the medical field
1:03.1	and shaping what medical education looks today.
1:05.1	I also found one article that said it's the most overrated document
1:08.1	in medical history, which made me laugh a bit.
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