Pritzker Initiative
“For medical education to flourish from one generation to the next, it has to reconfigure itself in response to changing scientific, social, and economic circumstances.”
-Abraham Flexner
That challenge from Abraham Flexner served as the basis for the medical education revolution of the early 20th century, and throughout its history, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has met Flexner’s challenge through an unremitting examination and evaluation of the medical curriculum and its relationship to biomedical discovery. Today, we once again find ourselves in an era of rapid discovery and pathbreaking approaches to medical care, and we, like many of our peer institutions, will undertake a new initiative to create a blueprint for a 21st century curriculum.
The Pritzker Initiative: A Curriculum for the 21st Century was launched in the 2005-2006 academic year. This initiative will transform the program of medical education offered at the Pritzker School of Medicine to reflect the revolutionary discoveries of the last ten years and their application to patient care, while preserving the great traditions and core values of the school and its devoted teaching faculty.
