Engel G L
J Med Educ. 1978 May;53(5):387-92. doi: 10.1097/00001888-197805000-00003.
The central principle of medical education advocated by Flexner was mastery of the scientific method and its application to all dimensions of medicine, whether the bench laboratory, the bedside, or the social arena. Not Flexner but the biomedical model has been responsible for curricular designs that have under stressed the application of the scientific method to clinical data and the more person-oriented, psychosocial dimensions of illness and patient care. Flexnerian standards of medical education have yet to be achieved.
弗莱克斯纳所倡导的医学教育的核心原则是掌握科学方法并将其应用于医学的各个方面，无论是实验室研究、临床实践还是社会领域。对课程设计负有责任的并非弗莱克斯纳，而是生物医学模式，这种模式一直以来都没有充分强调将科学方法应用于临床数据以及疾病和患者护理中更以人为本的社会心理层面。弗莱克斯纳式的医学教育标准尚未实现。
