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44-686: The Society renamed itself the Menopause Society in 2023. The Menopause Society was founded in 1989 by Dr. Wulf Utian, the Arthur H. Bill Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and one of the three original Founders of the International Menopause Society. Dr. Utian served as the Executive Director of NAMS from its inception until 2009. Dr. Stephanie Faubion currently serves as

88-583: A college-preparatory school in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky , Flexner published a critical assessment of the state of the American educational system in 1908 titled The American College: A Criticism . His work attracted the Carnegie Foundation to commission an in-depth evaluation into 155 medical schools in the US and Canada. It was his resultant self-titled Flexner Report , published in 1910, that sparked

132-574: A degree in classics, Flexner returned to Louisville to teach classics at Louisville Male High School . Four years later, Flexner founded a private school in which he would test his growing ideas about education. Flexner opposed the standard model of education that focused on mental discipline and a rigid structure. Moreover, "Mr. Flexner's School" did not give out traditional grades, used no standard curriculum, refused to impose examinations on students, and kept no academic record of students. Instead, it promoted small learning groups, individual development, and

176-478: A drugstore and used the profits from selling the establishment to attend medical school. He then practiced as a physician in Louisville . Bernard pursued a career in law and later practiced in both Chicago and New York. In 1896, Flexner married a former student of his school, Anne Laziere Crawford . She was a teacher who soon became a successful playwright and children's author. The success of her play Mrs. Wiggs of

220-410: A large body of students that would be otherwise unmanageable and thus give the lecturer time for research." In addition, Flexner was concerned about the chaotic condition of the undergraduate curriculum and the influence of the research culture of the university. Neither contributed to the mission of the college to address the whole person. He feared that "research had largely appropriated the resources of

264-460: A more hands-on approach to education. Graduates of his school were soon accepted at leading colleges, and his teaching style began to attract considerable attention. In 1908, Flexner published his first book, The American College . Strongly critical of many aspects of American higher education, it denounced, in particular, the university lecture as a method of instruction. According to Flexner, lectures enabled colleges to "handle cheaply by wholesale

308-846: A religious agnostic. In addition to contributions by his brother Simon, their nephew, Louis Barkhouse Flexner , was founding director of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and a former editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Flexner died in Falls Church, Virginia , in 1959 at 92 years of age. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky . After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in two years with

352-507: A sister named Rachel Flexner. The success of Abraham Flexner's experimental schooling allowed him to help finance Simon Flexner 's medical education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine . He proceeded to become a pathologist, bacteriologist and a medical researcher employed by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1901 to 1935. Flexner also financed his sister's undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College . Jacob ran

396-468: Is five years, including a dedicated year for research. The Cleveland Clinic established the school in 2002 with a $ 100 million gift from Norma and Al Lerner , and CCLCM accepted its first class of students in 2004. Physician researcher Eric Topol played an important role in securing the donation from the Lerner family. Topol served as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at CCLCM until 2006, when his position

440-626: Is the largest biomedical research center in Ohio. CWRU SOM is primarily affiliated with University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center , Cleveland Clinic , and the MetroHealth System . On November 1, 1843, under President George Edmond Pierce , five faculty members including Jared Potter Kirtland and John Delamater , and sixty-seven students began the first medical lectures at the Medical Department of Western Reserve College (also known as

484-515: The Flexner Report , which examined the state of American medical education and led to far-reaching reform in the training of doctors. The Flexner Report led to the closure of most rural medical schools and five out of seven African-American medical colleges in the United States given his adherence to germ theory , in which he argued that if not properly trained and treated, African-Americans and

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528-527: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education . The CWRU School of Medicine School is divided into six societies named after famous CaseMed alums. Upon matriculation, students in the University Program and MSTP are assigned to a society. Each has a Society Dean who serves as an academic and career adviser to the students. The societies are: Every year, the six societies compete in "ISC Picnic" for

572-524: The Rockefeller Foundation , Flexner "...exerted a decisive influence on the course of medical training and left an enduring mark on some of the nation's most renowned schools of medicine." Bonner worried that "the imposition of rigid standards by accrediting groups was making the medical curriculum a monstrosity," with medical students moving through it with "little time to stop, read, work or think." Bonner (2002) calls Flexner "the severest critic and

616-605: The Wayback Machine , NAMS Official Website.</ref> Following the 2023 rename, the NCMP certification is now known as Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP). General Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ( CWRU SOM, CaseMed ) is the medical school of Case Western Reserve University , a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio . It

660-629: The 155 medical schools then extant in North America, with his results published the following year in what came to be known as the Flexner Report . The results proved shocking: most "medical schools," for example, had entrance requirements no more stringent than either high school diploma or "rudiments or the recollection of a common school education." Only sixteen schools required at least two years of college as an entrance requirement, and of these, Johns Hopkins , Harvard , and Western Reserve were

704-508: The Bamberger siblings and their representatives to fund instead the development of an Institute for Advanced Study. The institute was headed by Flexner from 1930 to 1939 and it possessed a renowned faculty including Kurt Gödel and John von Neumann . During his time there, Flexner helped bring over many European scientists who would likely have suffered persecution by the rising Nazi government. This included Albert Einstein , who arrived at

748-589: The Cabbage Patch (based on the 1901 novel ) funded Flexner's studies at Harvard and his year abroad at European universities. The couple supported women's suffrage and had two daughters Jean and Eleanor. Jean went on to become one of the original employees of the United States Division of Labor Standards. Eleanor Flexner became an independent scholar and pioneer of women's studies. Flexner grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family; however, early on he became

792-625: The Cleveland Medical College) in Hudson, Ohio. Kirtland and Delamater had previously been instructors at a medical college started in 1834, the Medical Department of Willoughby University of Lake Erie, which had closed in 1843 due to faculty disagreements. Other faculty from that Medical Department went on to found Willoughby Medical College of Columbus, a precursor to the Ohio State University College of Medicine . In 1852,

836-455: The Negro himself suffer from hookworm and tuberculosis; he communicates them to his white neighbors, precisely as the ignorant and unfortunate white contaminates him. Self-protection not less than humanity offers weighty counsel in this matter; self-interest seconds philanthropy. The Negro must be educated not only for his sake, but for ours. He is, as far as the human eye can see, a permanent factor in

880-705: The Society's Medical Director and Ms. Carolyn Develen as the Society's Chief Operating Officer. In 1994 The Menopause Society launched Menopause , a peer-reviewed scientific journal meant to provide a forum for clinical research, applied basic science, and practice guidelines on all aspects of menopause. The scope of Menopause encompasses many varied biomedical areas, including internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics, gynecology, medical subspecialties such as cardiology and geriatrics, epidemiology, pathology, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and pharmacology. Additional professional educational material provided by NAMS includes

924-575: The best friend American medicine ever had." Between 1912 and 1925, Flexner served on the Rockefeller Foundation 's General Education Board , and after 1917 was its secretary. With the help of the board, he founded another experimental school, the Lincoln School , which opened in 1917, in cooperation with the faculty at Teachers College of Columbia University . Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld , founders of Bamberger's department store , which they had sold to Macy's following

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968-478: The best in the country." A little over 40 years later, in 1952, the Western Reserve University School of Medicine revolutionized medical education with the "new curriculum of 1952" and more advanced stages in 1968. This was the most progressive medical curriculum in the country at that time, integrating the basic and clinical sciences. L. O. Krampitz chaired the subcommittee which implemented

1012-401: The college, substituting the methods and interest of highly specialized investigation for the larger objects of college teaching." His book attracted the attention of Henry Pritchett , president of the Carnegie Foundation , who was looking for someone to lead a series of studies of professional education. The book consistently cited Pritchett in discussions of views on educational reform, and

1056-668: The curriculum reform. In 2019, the School of Medicine relocated to the Samson Pavilion Health Education Campus on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic, a $ 515 million building project, amid a multi-million dollar joint fundraising campaign between CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic. The campus houses students Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (CCLCM and traditional MD programs), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Case School of Dental Medicine, all of which—with

1100-514: The death of co-founder and husband Felix Fuld , were set on creating a medical school in Newark, New Jersey. They wanted to give admissions preference to Jewish applicants in an effort to fight the rampant prejudice against Jews in the medical profession at that time. Flexner informed them that a teaching hospital and other faculties required a successful school. A few months later, in June 1930, he had persuaded

1144-550: The economic impact of the School of Medicine and its affiliates on the State of Ohio equaled $ 5.82 billion and accounted for more than 65,000 Ohio jobs. The role of Case Western Reserve University in the Cleveland economy has been reported on by The Economist magazine. †Six of the first seven women in the United States to receive medical degrees from recognized allopathic medical schools graduated from Western Reserve University (as it

1188-438: The exception of CCLCM—had previously held classes on the campus of CWRU and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center . The move, announced in 2013, was a major contributing factor for University Hospitals to shift its name from University Hospitals Case Medical Center to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in 2016, as well as renegotiate its affiliation agreement with CWRU that same year. Prospective students have

1232-502: The first medical school program in the United States not to charge students tuition. The Cleveland Clinic, rather than CWRU, is responsible for all financial aspects of the school. Administration of the school, including deans, administrative staff, and admissions, is separate from the School of Medicine, which provides oversight over academic affairs at CCLCM. The Medical Scientist Training Program awards MD and PhD degrees upon graduation. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

1276-493: The infamous Society Cup in a series of events (e.g. soccer, flag football, relay races etc.). Every year, students at Case Western Reserve SOM write, direct and perform a full-length musical parody, lampooning Case Western Reserve, their professors, and themselves. It is a longstanding tradition that began in the 1980's and in recent years, the show has been a benefit for the Student Run Health Clinic. During 2007,

1320-460: The interplay between the biology of disease and the social and behavioral context of illness, between the care of the individual patient and the health of the public, and between clinical medicine and population medicine. The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM) is an educational program within the CWRU School of Medicine administered in conjunction with Cleveland Clinic . The program

1364-476: The medical school became the second in the U.S. to graduate a woman, Nancy Talbot Clark . 1854 MD alumna, Emily Blackwell became the third woman in the US to receive a regular medical degree. Six of the first seven women in the United States to receive medical degrees from recognized allopathic medical schools graduated from Western Reserve University between 1850 and 1856, which included Marie Zakrzewska . In 1909, Abraham Flexner surveyed and evaluated each of

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1408-569: The nation. Ironically, one of the schools, Louisville National Medical College , was located in Flexner's hometown. In response to the report, some schools fired senior faculty members in a process of reform and renewal. Flexner soon conducted a related study of medical education in Europe. According to Bonner (2002), Flexner's work came to be "nearly as well known in Europe as in America." With funding from

1452-465: The ongoing practice of evidence-based medicine in the rapidly changing healthcare environment of the 21st century. The goal of this program is to challenge students so that they affect positive change through treating disease, promoting health, and understanding the social and behavioral context of illness. The four-year curriculum unites the disciplines of medicine and public health into a single, integrated program that trains future physicians to consider

1496-540: The only schools to require an undergraduate degree. Although Johns Hopkins represented his ideal, Flexner also singled out the Medical Department of Western Reserve University for its praiseworthy admission standards and facilities. Flexner referred to Western Reserve as "already one of the substantial schools in the country." In a letter to Western Reserve president Charles Franklin Thwing he said, "The Medical Department of Western Reserve University is, next to Johns Hopkins ...,

1540-688: The option of three degree paths leading to a medical degree at the School of Medicine: the University Program, the College Program, or the Medical Scientist Training Program . The University Program is a traditional four-year Doctor of Medicine program designed to train well-rounded physicians in a curriculum called the Western Reserve2 (WR2) which is built on four cornerstones of clinical mastery, research and scholarship, leadership, and civic professionalism to prepare students for

1584-420: The poor posed a health threat to middle/upper class European-Americans. His position was: The practice of the Negro doctor will be limited to his own race, which in its turn will be cared for better by good Negro physicians than by poor white ones. But the physical well-being of the Negro is not only of moment to the Negro himself. Ten million of them live in close contact with sixty million whites. Not only does

1628-445: The print resource The Menopause Guidebook and the e-mail newsletter Menopause Flashes . The Menopause Society has developed an opportunity for licensed healthcare providers to demonstrate their expertise by passing a competency exam and becoming credentialed as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP). The Menopause Society provides a listing of MSCP-credentialed clinicians on its public website. [1] Archived 2012-05-14 at

1672-533: The reform of medical education in the United States and Canada. Flexner was also a founder of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , which brought together some of the greatest minds in history to collaborate on intellectual discovery and research. Flexner was born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 13, 1866. He was the sixth of nine children born to German Jewish immigrants Ester and Moritz Flexner. He

1716-401: The textbook Menopause Practice: A Clinician's Guide ; position statements on hormone therapy, management of menopausal symptoms, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, and other topics; an annual scientific conference; and the e-mail newsletters First to Know, Menopause Care Updates , and Menopause e-Consult . The Menopause Society also releases consumer educational materials such as

1760-479: The two soon arranged to meet through the then-president of Johns Hopkins University , Ira Remsen . Although Flexner had never set foot inside a medical school, he was Pritchett's first choice to lead a study of American medical education, and soon joined the research staff at the Carnegie Foundation in 1908. Although not a physician himself, Flexner was selected by Pritchett for his writing ability and his disdain for traditional education. In 1910, Flexner published

1804-424: Was called then) between 1850 and 1856. 41°30′18″N 81°36′16″W  /  41.504914°N 81.604398°W  / 41.504914; -81.604398 Abraham Flexner Abraham Flexner (November 13, 1866 – September 21, 1959) was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada. After founding and directing

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1848-454: Was eliminated amid controversy regarding his criticism of Vioxx and disagreements with other Cleveland Clinic leaders, including then-CEO Toby Cosgrove . The class size each year is 32 students, and the curriculum is notable for its lack of class rank, pre-clinical or clinical grading, or end-of-course examinations. In 2008, Cleveland Clinic announced that all students entering the program would receive full-tuition scholarships, representing

1892-478: Was the first in his family to complete high school and go on to college. In 1886, at age 19, Flexner completed a B.A. in classics at Johns Hopkins University , where he studied for only two years. In 1905, he pursued graduate studies in psychology at Harvard University , and at the University of Berlin . He did not, however, complete work on an advanced degree at either institution. Flexner had three brothers named Jacob, Bernard and Simon Flexner. He also had

1936-469: Was the first medical school to offer the dual degree MD-PhD program to its students in 1956, nearly a decade before the National Institutes of Health developed the first Medical Scientist Training Program. In 2002, the School of Medicine became the third institution in history to receive the highest review possible from the body that grants accreditation to U.S. and Canadian medical degree programs,

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