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Fifteen years ago, under the kindly and patient chaperonage of Dr. Colwell, I began my pilgrimage to medical schools at New Orleans, where Dr. Colwell and I visited the medical department of Tulane University. For three or four years following I devoted myself exclusively to the study and observation of medical education in this country and in the main countries of western Europe. Then for a period of ten years my contact with medical schools was simply occasional, while Dr. Colwell, in behalf of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, kept up not only his field contacts but also the unremittent hammering to which our American progress in medical education has been so largely due. About two and one-half years ago, I undertook to review once more the entire field, though unfortunately I have not been able to visit as many schools either in this country
Abraham Flexner (Sat,) studied this question.