pronounced. A quarter of a century earlier there had been over 160 medical schools; which were reduced to 76 – only a few proprietary. Most were attached to universities. Hiatt and Stockton attempted to quantify the influence of the Flexner Report in terms of schools closings and mergers attributable to the report … 12 of the 168 schools (7%) that Flexner evaluated closed or merged because of the report. The closing or mergers of another 26 schools (15%) were not credited to any comment of Flexner but occurred in the two decades following the report for reasons that were related to the report.