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2. Adequacy of the Current Comparative Medicine Veterinary Workforce
2. Adequacy of the Current Comparative Medicine Veterinary Workforce
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These detailed analyses were possible because the PhD workforce is the subject of national surveys sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and information on the MD workforce is collected by the American Medical Association. However, because the comparative medicine veterinary workforce encompasses individuals with different educational backgrounds, professional experiences, and career pathways, data sets describing the entire veterinary workforce in biomedical research are not available.
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For example, veterinarians participating in biomedical research as principal investigators or technical consultants are more likely to be affiliated with a professional research society (e.g., Society for Neuroscience) than a professional veterinary society.
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One indicator of the need for laboratory animal medicine veterinarians in biomedical research is the increased amount of NIH funding directed toward animal-related research. From 1990 through 2002, live, vertebrate animal-based research accounted for approximately 43°/O of the research grants competitively funded annually by NIH (Figure 2-11.
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If these predictions hold true over the next decade, by 2010 the US biomedical research enterprise could be utilizing more than 200 million rats and mice per year. A previous study of the supply of and demand for laboratory animal medicine veterinarians (Weigler et al., 1997)
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Neither the dramatic increase in the NIH budget nor the increase in the total number of NIH grants utilizing animals was predicted when it was concluded that the laboratory animal veterinary workforce had reached a steady state. Nevertheless, although these data would suggest an increased demand for laboratory animal medicine veterinarians during the last 5 years, the current workforce may indeed be adequate if there was a concomitant increase in the number of laboratory animal medicine veterinarians.
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Taken together, the 30% increase in competitive grants utilizing animals and the 15% increase in ACLAM membership might suggest that there is not an adequate number of appropriately trained laboratory animal medicine veterinarians in the workforce. However, it is not possible to correlate these data directly because data on the total (competitive and noncompetitive)
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The large, unexpected increase in the number of competitive grants utilizing animals and the large discrepancy between the number of institutions that are required to be overseen by a laboratory animal medicine veterinarian and the number of ACLAM diplomates are reflected in the number of position announcements for laboratory animal medicine veterinarians advertised in the major trade journals (Figure 2-31. Publication of position announcements for laboratory animal medicine veterinarians has been documented in the past (NRC, 1982; Weigler et al., 1997)
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VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS The subpopulation of the comparative medicine veterinary workforce composed of veterinary pathologists was recently surveyed by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP, 2002~. While this data set was the most comprehensive available to the authoring committee, the information was not derived exclusively from veterinary pathologists engaged in biomedical research, but included demographics on the entire veterinary pathologist workforce.
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The majority of respondents also indicated that their primary barrier to recruiting qualified job applicants was a limited number of qualified pathologists, and approximately 80% of respondents indicated that a limited number of qualified pathologists was a factor in their struggle to recruit qualified job applicants (ACVP, 2002~. While the results of the ACVP survey establish a need for veterinary pathologists, NIH has identified a specific need for mouse pathologists (NIH, 1998~.
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As seen in Figure 2-4 from 1995 to 2002, NCRR's budget increased by 204% while there was only a 42.9% increase in the Division of Comparative Medicine's funding. VETERINARIANS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS To examine the comparative medicine veterinary workforce that participates in biomedical research as principal investigators, the authoring committee used research project grant (ROT)
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. In all, the 258 RO1 grants awarded to veterinary principal investigators in 2001 comprise only 4.7% of all the NIH-funded competitive research grants that utilize
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. These data suggest that the current number of veterinary principal investigators who are conclucting long-term research programs in the United States is not adequate, yet .
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