Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists (1994) / Chapter Skim
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, it is enormously powerful in its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers. It is viewed as a prestigious, highly competitive program.
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On the over hand, increased emphasis on the maintenance of health, the outcome and quality of care, and the assessment of the impact of technology provide unique opportunities for prevention and health services research. Over changes in health care reform stress the need for increased activity in areas related to behavioral, nursing, and health services research.
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With full implementation of the recommendations that follow the number of NRSA awards would have expanded by about 10 percent between 1993 and 1996 with support for basic biomedical sciences representing 59 percent of the total in 1996, behavioral sciences about 9 percent of the total, the MSTP-program 6 percent, other clinical sciences (including oral health research) 20 percent, nursing research 3 percent, and health services research 2 percent.
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b Positions designated as Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) for purposes of this table are all considered to be in biomedical disciplines.
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Furthermore, because of the urgent need for clinical scientists familiar with patient-based research techniques we urge the NIH to increase the number of postdoctoral NRSA fellowship awards from 68 in fiscal 1993 to 160 by fiscal 1996 to permit the preparation of patient-based investigators. To permit the expansion of the pool of MSTP trainees and postdoctoral fellows, we believe modest reductions should be made in the number of postdoctoral awards made through institutional training grants in the clinical sciences.
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b Positions designated as Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) for purpose of this table are all considered to be in biomedical disciplines.
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. TOTAL Basic MedicalOral Health Fiscal Type ALL Biomedical Behavioral Clinical Scientistb Health C Nursing Services c Year of Program FIELDSSciences Sciences Sciences Training Research Research Research 1997 REC.
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Minority Access to Research Careers Hold Minority Access to Research Careers (MAR CJ awards constant atpscal 1993 levels, or approximate ly 680 awards, pending the outcome of the present NIH evaluation study. The NRSA program plays an important role in attracting minority group members to careers in the basic biomedical and behavioral sciences.
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3. The NIH Minority Programs Evaluation Committee recommended changes in the NIH data system to permit more effective tracking of individuals, similar to the changes recommended by this committee (see Chapter 9)
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