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US health care exam 1 Flexner and germtheory
Flexner report - answer19190 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of of teaching,
to survey American medical education. He visited 157 US schools, 8 Canada schools
Flexner 5 principles - answer entrance requirements, size and training of facility, size of
endowment and tuition, quality of labs, available teaching hospitals
Flexner findings and recommendations - answer only some schools had trained staff,
financial resources, and access to labs
Recommended four year med schools with lab teaching, full time faculty, clinicals,
research
John hopkins serves as model
Flexner negative and positive outcomes – answer Neg: schools closed in rural areas,
physician population dropped, cost of med school increased
Pos: 4 year schools required, highly trained institutions, best education and
opportunities
Germ Theory: Ignaz Semmelweis - answer implemented hand washing, did not get
recognized for it
child birth and fever deaths led to his findings
Germ Theory (Louis Pasteur) - answer Father of germ theory, rabies vaccines,
pasteurization, microscopic germs exist
Joseph Lister - answer Sterilization, body prep, infection prevention
Florence nightingale - answer sanitization, lighting patient care
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