Personnel Needs and Training for Biomedical and Behavioral Research The 1975 Report of the Committee on a Study of National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Personnel (1975) / Chapter Skim
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3 Principles and Problems
3 Principles and Problems
Pages 37-43
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Titles of narrow disciplinary fields have therefore lost some meaning for the purposes of forecasting. The problem is compounded by the difficulty of predicting major scientific developments and their impact on manpower requirements.
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This is a key question requiring the development of a sensitive monitoring system, as well as the introduction of modifications and the design of experimental training programs. Flexibility in this context has implications which the Committee believes merit further consideration.
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It will be necessary to evaluate the impact of training programs on the total scientific environment of institutions. Basic approaches to implementing this responsibility will be to identify areas of program success for retrospective examination of effects, such as encouragement of programs that cut across traditional departmental lines; stimulation of interaction of faculty, trainees, and persons from other departments and institutions; and increase in the quality of advanced courses.
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An oversupply can result in a serious degree of frustration and personal hardship for the redundant individuals and dislocation of individual lives when people graduate from training programs only to find that the expected jobs are not available. An undersupply of properly qualified persons results in the inability of research institutions to meet national needs.
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Actuarial data on the employment situation have been assembled at various times. The Survey of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, conducted by the National Research Council in 1973, showed that the unemployment rate for bioscientists in 1973 was 1.O percent; for behavioral scientists, 1.1 percent.
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Training grants recognize and enhance the excellence of training environments. Fellowships require a somewhat more elaborate administrative procedure for the review of many individual applications at the national level a procedure that seems appropriate at the postdoctoral level, but less so at the predoctoral level if more than a small number of prestige awards are to be made.
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This is the so-called "holding pattern," in which new Ph.D.'s who have been unable to find postgraduation jobs and older Ph.D.'s who have held postdoctoral appointments but have been unable to find permanent positions _ ~ _ _ _ _ are continued in postdoctoral slots beyond the normal term of such appointments. The extent of this phenomenon in the biomedical and behavioral research fields seems to fall within reasonable bounds at present, but the Committee is concerned about the future.
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