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5 Oral Health Research
5 Oral Health Research
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5 Oral Health Research Although dentistry is often thought of in terms of profes- ber is unlikely to decline in the near future. While the numsional practice, it is also a science that depends on research- ber of unfilled full-time positions is approximately 275, this ers to develop new and better dental technologies and, should not be interpreted as the number of research faculty through the training of dental practitioners, to bring those needed, as some of these positions are for clinical faculty.
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66 ADVANCING THE NATION'S HEALTH NEEDS 350 300 250 200 Number 150 100 50 0 1992-1903 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 Academic Year FIGURE 5-1 Unfilled full-time positions on dental school faculties, 19922002. SOURCE: American Dental Education Association.
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degrees, sugshortages of the past decade more of a problem in the future. gesting that preexisting research training or experience for The average age of faculty members in 2001 was 49.6 years, this applicant pool is negligible.
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Consequently, students can complete the DSTP and fers to the cumulative number of applicants to all programs still have debt. This program is new -- only a few students and represents a duplicated count.9 Because of the inordi- have completed it -- but graduates appear to be dedicated to nate length of some specialty training programs -- anywhere research careers and are now in postdoctoral training.
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An NIH policy could facilitate and encourage co-funding Although it provides the largest single source of all dental of research trainees. Also, a barrier that needs lifting is the research training funds, the research training budget of tendency to discourage dentist scholars from applying for NIDCR is limited and under financial pressure in the current research training funds within these disciplines.
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doctoral fellowships. While the F30 award is designed to With this broadening of the spectrum of research training support training in an established dual-degree program for sources to which dentist-researchers could apply, the oppor- students who intend to be researchers, it is no guarantee that tunity for collaborative funding for research training in fields students will not pursue professional careers.
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programs to undergraduates considering bioresearch. The partial support currently provided is not a good medical research careers.
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