Beyond Flexner Conference 2015

​​The 2015 Beyond Flexner Conference examined the progress of social mission innovations and reforms, as well as the moral, financial, and pedagogic aspects of social purpose and social accountability in health professions education.

Attendees deliberated about best practices, new schools’ programs, curricular innovations, augmented pipeline programs, teaching health centers, “upstream” medicine, and the public health medicine interface.

Conference participants not only deliberated issues of social mission but had the opportunity to take part in one of 16 site visits in and around Albuquerque. These visits were to programs where health professions students and faculty engaged in community based health delivery, agriculture, environmental improvement, and information exchange projects, modeling the impact a medical school could have on social determinants of health.

Donald Berwick

Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General

Conference Program

Speaker Information

Video library

Fitzhugh Mullan: Beyond Flexner

Art Kaufman: Building a Movement

Donald Berwick: Challenge of Change: The Direction of Change

Christine Cassel: Preparing Students to Love Transparency and Accountability: If You’re Going to be Naked, It’s Good to be Buff

Thomas Nasca: The new GME

Lincoln Chen: Transforming health professions-Globally!

Nirav Shah: Community benefit & social mission

Marc Nivet: State of the Diversity Mission

Rishi Manchanda: How do we move Flexner upstream?

Steven Wartman: Academic Health Centers and Social Determinants

Barbara Brandt: Interprofessional Health Professions

Camara Jones: The Gardener’s Tale and the Physician’s Legitimate Role

Joshua Sharfstein: The Times, They are A-Changin’