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8 Administrative Questions about Biomedical Science Programs and Concluding Thoughts
Pages 47-50

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... It turned out that neither question was straightforward for all programs. MEDICAL SCHOOL OR GRADUATE SCHOOL In an attempt to categorize programs correctly, the panel conducted an email inquiry of institutions with medical schools, asking them where their biomedical sciences programs were located administratively.
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... 48 RESEARCH-DOCTORATE PROGRAMS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TABLE 8-1 Comparison of Completion Rates and Median Time to Degree for Programs in both Arts and Sciences and Medical Schools (by Percentages for Completion and Years for Time to Degree) Medical Number of A&S School Medical Institutions Program Program Med A&S School Med with Average of Average of School Program Program School Common Completion Completion minus MedianTime MedianTime minus Field Programs Rate Rate A&S to Degree to Degree A&S Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology 8 46.83% 42.11% -4.71% 5.59 5.97 0.38 Cell and Developmental Biology 5 29.62% 56.72% 27.06% 6.6 5.9 -0.72 Immunology and Infectious Disease 3 60.50% 56.87% -3.60% 6.1 5.27 -0.83 Neuroscience and Neurobiology 4 46.28% 41.55% -4.73% 5.87 5.72 -0.15 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health 8 50.15% 52.91% 2.75% 5.42 5.68 0.26
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... However, the responding institutions provided data for individual fields, even when those fields were part of an umbrella program. Using data from the Assessment survey of doctoral programs,1 the panel examined the ratio of the number of students who enrolled to the number of students who received offers of admission to see if the integrated biological and biomedical science programs were more popular (as indicated by a higher enrolled-to-offered ratio)
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