The State of Diversity in the Health Professions a Century After Flexner

Abstract

Although the 1910 Flexner Report recommended,the closure of a large number of operating medical schools, its impact was,disproportionately felt on minority schools. The report’s recommendations,resulted in the closure of five out of seven predominantly,black medical schools. Also noteworthy,about the report was Flexner’s utilitarian argument,that black physicians should serve as sanitarians and hygienists for black communities,in villages and plantations. A century later, despite decades of