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Legal And Medical Education Compared: Is It Time For A Flexner Report On Legal Education, Robert M. Hardaway
Legal And Medical Education Compared: Is It Time For A Flexner Report On Legal Education, Robert M. Hardaway
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this Article is to explore the common elements of legal and medical education and to compare the reform movements in each profession, with a view toward finding an explanation for the widely differing conditions that exist today in the education of each profession. For example, why is it that medical education can provide facilities and training costing up to ten times that provided law students? Why do medical schools receive outside financial support paying up to 95% of the costs of medical education while law schools are supported primarily by tuition and fees? Why do medical students …