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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Appendix D Some Data Sources and Studies
Appendix D Some Data Sources and Studies
Pages 73-79
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, and the National Research Council (NRC) .1 For a micro-study of career patterns, longitudinal data on type of employer, work activity, field-switching, relative salaries, and publication and citation indices are important.
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This file includes biographic and detailed training program data on 94,000 individuals supported by NIH 1961-71 training grants and 1938-72 fellowships. Traininq records for 1972-73 funded trainees and 1973-74 _ funded fellows will be added shortly.
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Plans are now being undertaken to construct 1971-74 data in this file so that longitudinal studies relating to the employment of medical faculty members can be made Although the collation of the above files, on one hand, is useful in presenting a comprehensive picture of the career patterns of biomedical and behavioral research personnel, it also raises some serious problems in taxonomy. Differences in field classification schemes used in the NRC, NSF, NIH, and AAMC files make it impossible to find a consistent definition of supply in the biomedical and behavioral fields especially in the clinical sciences.
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The findings include data on a fulltime equivalence basis for physician faculty and trainees engaged in pulmonary research, the number of budgeted vacancies' and estimates of additional personnel needed to meet the requirements of medical school programs. The findings of that study have been compared with data for 1974-75 obtained by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society to determine supply and demand for physicians and scientists involved in teaching and research related to pulmonary disease in Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.
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Pertinent portions of this information have been incorporated into Chapter IV of this report. During the next year, further development from these analyses are expected to lead to a better understanding of the factors influencing the need for biomedical and behavioral research personnel and will enable the Committee to provide more specific recommendations concerning future levels of training.
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The approach underlying the recent NSF projections divides the demand market into three components: academia, the nonacademic research and development sector, and the other-employment sector. Projections of the demand for biomedical and behavioral scientists in academia can be made with some confidence by examining trends in enrollments, faculty attrition, and enrichment (as Allan Cartter has has done3~.
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The basic assumption underlying this approach is that biomedical and behavioral research is the primary long-term process by which disease and disability are reduced and that a prudent policy of investment in research in these areas will pay off within a given time. The data required for this study include total annual direct expenditures for illness, the annual rates of biomedical/behavioral training and research expenditures, the average annual research cost per researcher, and the size of the current manpower pool.
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