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This peer reviewed article analyzes how the Flexner Report transformed the American medical education system. Abraham Flexner, an educator, published the Flexner report which critiqued medical schools in the US and Canada. This report leads to the reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada. The Flexner Report triggered much-needed reforms in the standards, organization, and curriculum of medical schools in the US and Canada. At the time of the Report, many medical schools were proprietary schools operated more for profit than for education, students did not need to have a college degree, and few schools had the equipment and facilities to conduct scientific research. All those things and many others changed for the better after the Flexner’s report. I plan to discuss how this report changed the American medical education system. For example, this report increased homogenous in the practice of medicine and medical education in the US. It also ensured that all medical schools should be attached to a university. Thus, committed to promote increasing knowledge among practitioners and physicians through constant research. This report is relevant to my theme because I want to highlight how public health organizations utilized mass media to address their issues. Noteworthy publications such as the Flexner Report was introduced to the public and covered in the front pages of many newspapers. In that event, it transformed the nature and process of medical education in America. On such accounts, the media has proven effective in transforming the U.S. medical education. For this reason, the media is an important actor in the public health system, that can catalyze action at the national and local levels.
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