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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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.

Re: Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency #2

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post of the above title [Hake (2010)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Cooke, Irby, & O'Brien (2010) in Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency wrote: "In 1910, Abraham Flexner articulated the current blueprint for medical education in North America. . . . . . . . .

Yet during the past century, along with enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological and technological foundations have been transformed. Now medical education in the United States is at a crossroads: those who teach medical students and residents must choose whether to continue in the direction established over a hundred years ago or to take a fundamentally different course, guided by contemporary innovation and new understanding about how people learn. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In our review and observation of medical education, we were as well influenced by research in the learning sciences and medical education. Much of this research has been distilled in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999) for the National Academy of Sciences."

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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

REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy http://tinyurl.com/create.php .]

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://tinyurl.com/2cwtg45 . Amazon.com information at http://tinyurl.com/288m2ag. Note the searchable "Look Inside" feature.

Hake, R.R. 2010. "Re: Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency #2," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/28afmml . Post of 9 Jun 2010 06:25:32-0700 to AERA-L, DrEd, and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being distributed to various discussion lists.