Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access published online on October 30, 2009
Schizophrenia Bulletin, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbp128
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Adopting Evidence-Based Practices—Our Hesitation Waltz
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A century ago, Abraham Flexner published his seminal report that transformed American medical education.1 The Flexner Report strongly advocated that medical education be standardized and grounded in science in order to counter prevailing trends that allowed the proliferation of practices with little or no scientific validity, delivered by inadequately trained practitioners. Certainly, we can see in the Flexner Report the roots for current efforts to promote evidence-based practices (EBPs). Indeed, it seems a given today that the practice of medicine must be founded upon the best science. This applies
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