1. The Transformation of American Medicine
Before the reform of American medical schools, most medical students and physicians went to either Paris or Germany to participate in medical research and study at their laboratories. ... Most of them required medical practitioners to have a diploma from a school that included clinical and laboratory instruction.2 With the European schools as a model, the opening of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was the beginning of the increase of American medical science. ... With an American medical school to be modelld after, Abraham Flexner and the American Medical College Association came into play ...
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