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Evaluation Activities of the American Cancer Society--Ralph Vogler
Pages 73-78

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From page 73...
... This paper describes the evaluation activities for two programs instituted following the committee's recommendations. These programs are the Clinical Research Training Programs and the research project grants.
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From page 74...
... The objective of the review was to evaluate the impact of the program on clinical research, to assess the impact of funding on the professional careers of the applicants, and to identify issues that might provide guidance as to how the ACS might do these in the future. This was done by comparing funded applicants with the unfunded applications with regard to various things such as degrees, prior research experience, publications, institutions, current academic status, current research, and the number of publications.
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From page 75...
... The Psychosocial and Policy Committee funded only 10 percent. Grant recipients were asked about their prior research experience.
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From page 76...
... Prior research and publication experience enhanced funding chances. Most of the applicants remained in academic institutions and were involved primarily in clinical research, whether they were funded or not.
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From page 77...
... Funding success was much lower for initial submissions, 6 or Black, 2% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 20% White, 73% FIGURE 1 Race/ethnicity of applicants.
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From page 78...
... An assessment of research project grants has just begun. ACS will continue to analyze the data it currently has and will continue to send questionnaires to all applicants and to use other search methods to find missing addresses.
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