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MEDICAL  EDUCATION  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND 
CANADA. 
A  report  to  the  Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  advancement  of  teach- 
ing, by  Abraham  Flexner,  with  an  introduction  by  Henry  S.  Prit- 
chett,  President  of  the  Foundation,  New  York,  19 10. 
This  volume  of  346  pages  is  to  be  had,  practically  for  the  asking, 
and  should  be  read,  studied,  and  inwardly  digested  by  every  physi- 
cian, every  pharmacist,  and  every  educated  layman  in  these  United 
States. 
Part  I  consists  of  180  pages  divided  into  14  chapters,  and  pre- 
sents a  survey  of  the  history  of  medical  education  in  this  country, 
and  a  comprehensive  discussion  of  the  various  problems  that  are 
involved  in  the  present  day  effort  to  advance  the  requirements  as 
well  as  the  scope  of  medical  education. 
Part  II  contains  a  detailed  report  of  the  observations  made  in 
the  course  of  a  systematic  inspection  of  the  medical  schools  of  the 
United  States  and  Canada.  This  portion  of  the  report  is  alphabeti- 
cally arranged  by  states  and  provinces  and  includes,  among  other 
information,  statistics  relating  to  the  population  of  the  several  states, 
the  number  of  physicians  and  the  ratio  of  physicians  to  inhabitants. 
The  report  also  discusses  the  more  important  local  features  and 
records  in  detail,  the  requirements,  resources  and  facilities  of  the 
several  schools. 
An  appendix  contains  a  table  showing  the  number  of  professors 
and  other  instructors  in  the  faculty,  the  enrolment,  fee  income,  and 
the  budget  of  the  several  schools  by  states. 
Finally,  a  rather  complete  index  of  8  double  column  pages  facili- 
tates reference  to  any  one  particular  feature  or  institution  that  is 
discussed. 
No  book  published  in  recent  years  is  destined  to  have  a  more  far- 
reaching  influence  on  the  development  of  the  educational  institutions 
of  our  country,  and  therefore  on  the  progress  and  wellbeing  of  the 
people  themselves,  as  this  volume  which  depicts  in  terse  but  always 
readable  language  the  development  or  lack  of  development  of  the 
widely  varying  institutions  more  or  less  loosely  classed  as  medical 
schools. 
The  President  of  the  Foundation,  in  the  introduction,  points  out 
that  "one  of  the  problems  of  the  future  is  to  educate  the  public 
itself  to  appreciate  the  fact  that  very  seldom,  under  existing  con- 
ditions, does  a  patient  receive  the  best  aid  which  it  is  possible  to  give 
