Title:

Whole-Time Clinical Professors

Creator:

Osler, William

Recipient:

Remsen, Ira

Date:

1 September 1911

Description:

When Abraham Flexner, of the Carnegie Foundation, reported on his survey of the state of American medical schools in 1910, he noted that Johns Hopkins had created the best model for medical education. A follow-up report to the Rockefeller Foundation -- which was considering giving Johns Hopkins a $1,000,000 grant to further improve its medical program -- recommended that clinical professors be required to give up their private practices and work only for the medical school. Private practice, Flexner said, distracted the clinical faculty from doing the kind of important scientific research done by the non-clinical faculty. In this open letter to university president Ira Remsen, Osler argued that the full-time arrangement would be a disaster.

Original Repository:

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. William Osler Collection

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Pamphlets
Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Medical Staff

Format:

Text

Extent:

13 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. William Osler Collection. 12829

Legacy ID:

GFBBZH

NLM ID:

101743406X423

Profiles Collection:

The William Osler Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743406X423

Story Section:

Sir William: Regius Professor at Oxford, 1905-1919