
Policy
Medical Education Needs Rethinking
Under the lingering influence of the 110-year-old Flexner Report, medical schools still minimize social and environmental factors in the understanding and treatment of disease
Monique Tello, M.D., M.P.H., is an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project.
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