Abstract
THREE COMPONENTS of our total educational program, that in medical school, that at the resident level (graduate), and that of the physician in practice (continuing education), are now so dependent, one upon the other, that I feel obligated to comment briefly upon the first and the last before taking up in more detail that of graduate education. Modern education, at the medical school level, began with the implementation of the recommendations of Abraham Flexner following his survey of our medical schools 54 years ago. This study was stimulated and the responsibility for its implementation was accepted by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association later to be shared by the Association of American Medical Colleges through the liaison committee representing these two groups. It is this committee representing the two associations which establishes minimum educational standards for the medical schools of this country and, by a system
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