Question

The Flexner report was spurred by the fact that:

- The thousands of medical schools in North America had little unity of purpose or of standards

- The majority of medical schools were using the same standards but it wasn't written down explicitly for all to see

- It was time for a fresh look since the last study of this kind was done 50 years before the Flexner report

- The Carnegie Foundation wanted to establish itself as an overseer of medical schools

Answer 1

Answer: b

The Flexner report was spurred by the fact that the majority of medical schools were using the same standards, but it wasn't written down explicitly for all to see.

Flexner report was written by Abraham Flexner, one of the great educators of the 1900s. He was a researcher at the Carnegie Foundation and was commissioned by the foundation to write this report. Flexner conducted the research and published the report "Medical education in the United States and Canada." This is a landmark report about the state of medical education in the United States and Canada during the early 1900s. The report pointed to the necessity of reforms in the standards, curriculum, and organization of medical schools in the United States and Canada. He favored the German medical school model with biomedical sciences education combined with clinical training. Many medical schools were closed and others introduced reforms to conform to Flexner's model.

The other options given here about the Flexner report are not true as they do not state the facts about the report.