Academic Medicine has announced publication of its first eBook, developed using articles that were featured in the February 2010 issue as chapters. This issue, marking the 100th anniversary of the Flexner Report, contains 27 articles about Abraham Flexner and his legacy, including two articles co-authored by FAIMER staff and Fellows:
Relevance of the Flexner Report to Contemporary Medical Education in South Asia
Zubair Amin, Deputy Head, Medical Education Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
William P. Burdick, FAIMER Associate Vice President for Education and Co-Director of the FAIMER Institute
Avinash Supe (PHIL 2002), Director of the GSMC-FAIMER Regional Institute
Tejinder Singh (PHIL 2003), Director of the CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute
Flexner’s Global Influence: Medical Education Accreditation in Countries that Train Physicians Who Pursue Residency in the United States
Marta van Zanten, FAIMER Research Associate
John R. Boulet, FAIMER Associate Vice President for Research and Data Resources
Frank A. Simon, FAIMER Senior Scholar
The eBook is free to download and is formatted to two types of file: an epub file for iPads, Nooks, and Sony eReaders; and a prc file for the Kindle. To access the eBook, visit the Announcements section of the Academic Medicine website: http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/default.aspx.