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About 60 years ago, there was published bulletin 4 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching entitled Medical Education in the United States and Canada. This book by Abraham Flexner, which came to be known as the "Flexner Report," described a study of the medical schools in the United States and Canada by the Carnegie Foundation, a study for which the American Medical Association was largely responsible. This report was followed by tremendous changes in medical education, to the great benefit of the public. These changes recognized primarily the need for medical practitioners to have substantial grounding in the biomedical sciences.Eventually, the quality of medical schools in the United States and Canada reached a level which, with respect to both the advancement of medical science and the training of physicians, is not exceeded, if indeed equalled, any place in the world. While the ascendancy of the Flexner