The Flexner Report and the Impact on Minority & Female Physicians.

The Flexner Report and the Impact on Minority & Female Physicians.


The Flexner Report was unsparing in its criticism. Flexner said that several of the schools were “in 

no position to make any contribution of value” and called them “beyond repair.”

The deck was particularly stacked against black medical schools. Their students arrived unprepared for their studies because they lacked access to decent high school education. Tuition was substantially lower than the average medical school since most students couldn’t afford higher fees. Lacking funds, schools couldn’t maintain or update their equipment or facilities. (JSTOR, a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students. article by: Jessie Wright-Mendoza  May 3, 2019

via U.S. National Library of Medicine

Many medical schools closed after the Flexner report was issued, particularly schools that educated female, black, and working-class students. In 1900 there were 7 women’s medical colleges in the United States; by 1930, only the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania remained. The proportion of women who graduated from medical school decreased to an all-time low shortly after the Flexner report was issued (2.9% in 1915), and the proportion remained below 5% until the 1970s. ( More ES. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850 –1995. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University; 1999).

 

Abraham Flexner

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