Friday, October 22, 2010

Re: 2010 Flexner Report

Some blog followers might be interested in a post “Re: 2010 Flexner Report” [Hake (2010a)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Team-Learning's Jim Sibley asked “Does anyone have a copy of the 2010 Flexner report they can send me?” In response: (a) I referred to Cooke et al. (2010) at http://amzn.to/aTvhxN, and (b) Deirdre Bonnycastle of the DrEd list referred to the Canadian version at http://bit.ly/9Dgj6o.

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To access the complete 10 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/dmsdkC .


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands

President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)


rrhake@earthlink.net>

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi

http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com

http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake


“[Educating Physicians] is a very important book that comes at a critical time in our nation's history. We will not have enduring health care reform in this country unless we rethink our medical education paradigms. This book is a call to arms for doing just that.”

- George E. Thibault, president, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation [see at

http://bit.ly/aEt4PY ; quoted in the Cooke et al. (2010) publisher's

information at http://bit.ly/d52HEP .]


REFERENCES [All URL's accessed on 22 October 2010; URL's shortened by http://bit.ly/.]


Hake, R.R. 2010a. “Re: 2010 Flexner Report,” online at http://bit.ly/dmsdkC . Post of 18 Oct 2010 10:56:24-0700 to AERA-L, Chemed-L, EvalTalk, PBL, & POD; and to Net-Gold on 22 Oct 2010 10:32:00.

See also the earlier post Hake (2010b).

The abstract and link to the complete post are being distributed to various academic discussion lists.


Hake, R.R. 2010b. “Re: Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at

http://bit.ly/brvqLC. Post of 9 Jun 2010 06:25:32 -0700 to AERA-L, DrEd, and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post were distributed to various academic discussion lists and are also online on this blog at http://bit.ly/cNfKWW with a provision for comments.


Cooke, M., D.M. Irby, & B.C. O'Brien. 2010. Forward by Lee S. Shulman. Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency. Jossey-Bass, publisher's information at http://bit.ly/d52HEP . Amazon.com information at http://amzn.to/aTvhxN ; note the searchable “Look Inside” feature.

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