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Board examinations, including anatomy (Report of Council on 

 Medical Education, '06). 



2. A sub-committee of anatomists, appointed by the Associa- 

 tion of American Medical Colleges to make recommendations 

 for reform in anatomy (Bardeen, '09). 



3. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing which published the well-known Flexner report on Medical 

 Education in the United States and Canada, in 1910. 



4. The Commission on Medical Education which was ap- 

 pointed by the Association of American Medical Colleges and 

 which reported their conclusions in 1932 in a volume entitled, 

 Final Reports of the Commission on Medical Education. 



5. The Weiskotten report on Medical Education in the 

 United States, published in 1940 by the Council on Medical Edu- 

 cation of the American Medical Association. 



6. National, State and Specialty Boards of Examiners. 



7. The Commonwealth Fund which published Medical Ed- 

 ucation in the Changing Order (Allen, '46) and Trends in Medi- 

 cal Education (Atchley, '49) and the John and Mary Markle and 

 Rockefeller Foundations which sponsored meetings of the Ameri- 

 can Surgical and Dental Associations for the purpose of suggesting 

 improvements in undergraduate medical education ('50). 



It may be of interest to mention specific opinions and stand- 

 ards regarding anatomy by some of the above agencies which 

 have most influenced the subject since 1900. In 1906, the Council 

 on Medical Education of the American Medical Association di- 

 vided the medical schools of the United States into four classes de- 

 pending upon the percentage of student failures in State Board 

 Medical Examinations in anatomy. The average number was high 

 and the members believed the first step in raising the general 

 standards of medical education was by abolishing all the medical 

 schools which were then conducted for profit. 



Bardeen ('05) reported the recommendations of a sub-com- 

 mittee of anatomists appointed by the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation to study teaching in anatomy as follows: They felt that 

 anatomy was in bad repute. The members suggested that all teach- 

 ers of this subject should be full-time, have a thorough profes- 

 sional training in the various branches of anatomy, have demon- 



