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99 years ago, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie gave noted
educator Abraham Flexner an awesome responsibility: to investigate 155
medical schools from Texas to Toronto and report on
where he found outstanding
medical education producing world-class physicians.
In the end, only one school met Flexner's rigorous standards, Johns Hopkins.
Hopkins, Flexner wrote, is quote, the first medical school in America, genuine
university type, with well equipped laboratories
conducted by modern teachers devoting themselves unreservedly
to medical investigation and instruction in which the training of the physicians
and the healing of the sick harmoniously combined, the infinite advantage of both.
The influence of this new foundation can hardly be overstated.
That report revolutionized medical training.
Ever since, Johns Hopkins medical students have been trained
by outstanding faculty including some 20 Nobel Prize winners.
US News and World Report has rated Johns Hopkins
as the best hospital in America for 19 straight years.
A century after Flexner's findings, medical
education is again at a crossroads.
Again, Johns Hopkins has stepped to the fore.
Our genes to society curriculum premiering this August,
represents another quantum leap forward in medical education.
It gives students extensive contact with patients from their first
day at Johns Hopkins, and creates a framework in which
students explore biological issues of health in the context of
the social, cultural, psychological and
environmental variables facing the patient.
But you don't have to take our word for it.
Read what our students and residents themselves have to say
about the areas of John Hopkins that drew them here.
In their words, we hope you'll find answers to many of your questions.
We invite you to join them and us in the adventure that is Johns
Hopkins Medicine.