<Li> Train physicians to practice in a scientific manner and engage medical faculty in research; </Li> <Li> Give medical schools control of clinical instruction in hospitals </Li> <Li> Strengthen state regulation of medical licensure </Li> <P> Flexner even expressed that he found Hopkins to be a "small but ideal medical school, embodying in a novel way, adapted to American conditions, the best features of medical education in England, France, and Germany ." In his efforts to ensure that Hopkins was the standard to which all other medical schools in United States were compared, Flexner went on to claim that all the other medical schools were subordinate in relation to this "one bright spot ." Flexner believed that admission to a medical school should require, at minimum, a high school diploma and at least two years of college or university study, primarily devoted to basic science . When Flexner researched his report, only 16 out of 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada required applicants to have completed two or more years of university education . By 1920, 92 percent of U.S. medical schools required this of applicants . Flexner also argued that the length of medical education should be four years, and its content should be what the CME agreed to in 1905 . Flexner recommended that the proprietary medical schools should either close or be incorporated into existing universities . Medical schools should be part of a larger university, because a proper stand - alone medical school would have to charge too much in order to break even financially . </P>

Who argued that doctors should be highly trained