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Exhibit 025

Minutes of the Council on Medical Education, New York, 28 December 1908

Exhibit 025 ยท Meeting minutes

Minutes of the Council on Medical Education, New York, 28 December 1908

Records a meeting of the Council with Henry S. Pritchett and Abraham Flexner. The Council agreed to put its data at the Carnegie Foundation's disposal. The minutes record that "the Foundation would be guided largely by the Council's investigations, but to avoid the usual claims of partiality no more mention should be made in the report of the Council than any other source of information."

Source
American Medical Association, Council on Medical Education
Date
28 December 1908
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED104308.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Note
Known through James Monahan, "The Flexner Report: A Study in Polemics" (paper to the American Educational Research Association, 2 April 1975; ERIC ED104308), typescript pp. 5โ€“6 and note 14. Monahan cites "Minutes of the Business Meetings of the Council on Medical Education, 1908โ€“1917," pp. 6โ€“7, bound transcripts at AMA headquarters, Chicago.

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Finding MED-1.2
Primary record The AMA's Council on Medical Education started the Flexner study. The Carnegie Foundation paid for it and published it.
Finding MED-1.3
Reported The Carnegie Foundation and the AMA agreed to keep their collaboration on the Flexner Report out of public view.