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Evaluation of Research Training and Career Development Programs at NIH: Current Capabilities and Continuing Needs--Charles R. Sherman
Evaluation of Research Training and Career Development Programs at NIH: Current Capabilities and Continuing Needs--Charles R. Sherman
Pages 111-122
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But the vast majority of the manpower development is supported and conducted in extramural settings, such as degree-granting universities and affiliated training hospitals. Formal training programs and fellowship and career development applications are evaluated and awarded based on merit by the NIH peer review system.
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Some data shortcomings and emerging difficulties will be mentioned, as well as the need for additional data resources. Here are some important data, provided by the Office of Extramural Research, that show the size of NIH's known research training enterprise: First, the numbers of trainees and fellows annually since 1976 are seen in Figure 1.
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Finally, the FY 2005 budget for traineeships, fellowships, and career development activities was $1.376 million, out of a total NIH budget of $28.6 billion. For traineeships and fellowships (T and F awards)
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and other federal agencies, NIH supports the Survey of Earned Doctorates, which adds annually to the Doctorate Records File, or DRF, and the biennial Survey of Doctorate Recipients, or SDR, tracking the careers of a 20 percent longitudinal sample of all Ph.D.s awarded in the United States. TABLE 1 Evaluation Databases Available to NIH Evaluation Databases • TFF -- Trainee and Fellows File • CGAF -- Consolidated Grant Application File • DRF -- Doctorate Records File • SDR -- Survey of Doctorate Recipients • FRS -- (Medical)
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Parenthetically, it should be said that these graphs are out of date. A comprehensive set of tables and graphs used to be prepared annually, but for some reason, this simple procedure was discontinued after 1996.
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SOURCE: Consolidated Grant Applicant File and Fellow File.
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Once identified, these newest members of the grant applicant pool can be examined, and retrospectively, the importance of NIH's training programs in sustaining and regenerating the bioscience workforce -- and whether this self-renewal is changing -- can be observed. Retrospectively, new entrants to the pool of grant applicants can be viewed, and how many received NIH training support can be assessed (see Figure 8)
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118 ENHANCING PHILANTHROPY'S SUPPORT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS FIGURE 7 Number of first-time R01 applicants by fiscal year of first application and degree: 1965 to 1994. FIGURE 8 First-time R01 applicants and first-time R01 Awardees: percentage of Ph.D.s with prior research training by fiscal year 1965 to 1994.
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OTHER MEASURABLE OUTCOMES OF RESEARCH TRAINING AND COMPARISON GROUPS Becoming an active member of the community of NIH grant-supported bioscience scholars is one countable career outcome, but it is not the only measurable, positive outcome. And sizable numbers of people make this achievement without the benefit of NIH-supported training.
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Enclosing the "+" in a box indicates that NRSA predoctoral support was found to be statistically significant in helping to explain the observed differences, after adjusting for the influence of other variables.
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The apparent decrease in subsequent grant applications by recent cohorts is an artifact of the limited time available to apply for them. NIH is now in the planning stages of a comprehensive assessment of the multiple career development programs.
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Some of these are: • degree/data quality issues; • cost-benefit comparisons of training/career activities; • data capture improvement (e.g., "program" Ks and nonprincipal investigator personnel on research grants) ; • SDR-like tracking for researcher M.D.s, R.N.s and D.D.S.s, as well as for foreign-earned Ph.D.s; • collaboration between NIH outside organizations with similar career development evaluation interests (e.g.
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