Trends in North American medical education (original) (raw)

2005, The Keio Journal of Medicine

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Abstract. Medical education in the United States of America (USA), and worldwide, is increasingly concentrating on the process and outcome of the educational experience. The first efforts to substan-tially improve medical education in the USA resulted in the Flexner Report in the ...

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