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The Biomedical Research Environment in the 1980s
Pages 22-23

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... , among others, expressed marked concern that a shortage of clinical researchers was endangering our nation's leading role in today's biomedical revolution. A shortage of clinical researchers was clearly contributing to a widening gap between those discoveries made in He basic science laboratories and the application of discoveries to conquer human diseases.
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... In the past 20 years the advance of Ph.D.s into disease-oriented research has increased dramatically. In 1997 "the majority of principal investigators for clinical research projects supported by the NIH and me Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality held Ph.D.s (1,449)
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