Abraham Flexner

Abraham Flexner (1886-1959) was an American educator. He is credited with reforming medical education in the United States, as well as founding the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Biography

He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated at Johns Hopkins University. Initially, he worked as a secondary school teacher and school principal, but after 19 years he returned to academia and did graduate studies at Harvard University and in Berlin.

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Louisville, Kentucky - Johns Hopkins University - Harvard University

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He then became a member of research staff at the Carnegie Foundation (1908), which resulted in the "Flexner Report", which examined the state of American medical education and led to far-reaching reforms in the way doctors were trained.

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Carnegie Foundation - Flexner Report

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Between 1912 to 1925, Flexner sat on the General Education Board, initially as a member and from 1917 as secretary.

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1912 - 1925 - General Education Board - 1917

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With Louis Bamberger, he was initiator of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and he acted as its head from 1930 to 1939.

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Louis Bamberger - Institute for Advanced Study - 1930 - 1939

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