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Report of the Committee on a Feasibility Study of National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Personnel (1975) / Chapter Skim
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3 Principles
Pages 4-6

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... The Committee and its panels believe, however, that the present methodology and data base are adequate for developing a strategy and for making a start toward forecasting aggregate manpower requirements for biomedical/behavioral research. Even though use of particular assumptions may introduce an appreciable margin of error at the outset, available methodology and the data base are adequate to indicate the direction of change.
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... This is a key question requiring the development of a sensitive monitoring system, as well as the introduction of modifications and the design of experimental training programs. Study approaches could include a comparison of disciplinary versus interdisciplinary programs as a means of responding to changing manpower needs.
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... The study will be elected to evaluate the impact of training programs on the total set enter fic environment of institute ons . :Basic approaches to implementing this responsibility will be to identify areas of program success for retrospective examination of effects, such as encouragement of programs that cut across traditional departmental lines, stimulation of interaction of faculty, trainees, and persons from other deportments and institutions; and increase in the quality of advanced courses .
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