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How to improve the formal analytic reasoning and scientific motivation in the intellectual training of medical students

A review article of the The New England Journal of Medicine refers that almost a century ago, Abraham Flexner, a research scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, undertook an assessment of medical education in 155 medical schools in operation in the United States and Canada. Flexner’s report emphasized the nonscientific approach of American medical schools to preparation for the profession, which contrasted with the university-based system of medical education in Germany. At the core of Flexner’s view was the notion that formal analytic reasoning, the kind of thinking integral to the natural sciences, should hold pride of place in the intellectual training of physicians. This idea was pioneered at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1880s, but was most fully expressed in the educational program at Johns Hopkins University, which Flexner regarded as the ideal for medical education. (...)

CIDUI 2009. Docència, recerca i aprenentatge

Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació

Author: Mezquita, Betlem
Mezquita Pla, Jovita
Petit, Màrius
Jornet, Agustí
Mezquita Pla, Cristóbal
Date: 2009 May 6
Abstract: A review article of the The New England Journal of Medicine refers that almost a century ago, Abraham Flexner, a research scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, undertook an assessment of medical education in 155 medical schools in operation in the United States and Canada. Flexner’s report emphasized the nonscientific approach of American medical schools to preparation for the profession, which contrasted with the university-based system of medical education in Germany. At the core of Flexner’s view was the notion that formal analytic reasoning, the kind of thinking integral to the natural sciences, should hold pride of place in the intellectual training of physicians. This idea was pioneered at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1880s, but was most fully expressed in the educational program at Johns Hopkins University, which Flexner regarded as the ideal for medical education. (...)
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Citation: Mezquita, B. [et al.]. (2009). How to improve the formal analytic reasoning and scientific motivation in the intellectual training of medical students. A ’CIDUI 2009. Docència, recerca i aprenentatge’. Barcelona: CIDUI. [Consulta 20 maig 2009]. Disponible a: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/1470
ISBN: 978-84-8458-287-8
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/1470
Language: eng
Publisher: Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació
Is part of: CIDUI 2009. Docència, recerca i aprenentatge
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Subject: Medicina -- Ensenyament universitari -- Innovacions
Medicine -- Education, Higher -- Innovations
Motivació en l’educació
Motivation in education
Lògica mèdica
Medical logic
Title: How to improve the formal analytic reasoning and scientific motivation in the intellectual training of medical students
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