MedPage Today June 8, 2020
— Do docs spend too much time in school, or do NPs and PAs not spend enough?
Medical schools make physicians. This has been the case for quite a long time. The modern medical school has existed, in something like its current form, since medical schools were reformed in the wake of the Flexner Report of 1910. That report, commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation, recommended standardized premedical and medical education and really created the modern medical college.
Fortunately for untold patients, the report also resulted in closure of many suboptimal medical schools, saving patients from many poorly trained “physicians.” (Some of those students had no clinical training and attended lectures only, and did so...
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