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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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4 A Conceptual Framework
Pages 6-10

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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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... - Development and testing of "market' models that take into account student choices of fields of study and initial job decisions; decisions of persons already in the work force; employer hiring, firing, promotion and retirement policies, salary data; and governmental initiatives and responses. Pipeline Studies - Flow of personnel through graduate and postdoctoral education into employment, including analyses of enrollment data, degree attainment, atrition, field switching, and turnover and aging of the research work force .
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... the comtn;ttee belie ~ it feasible to pro~o'ect demand for biomedical and behavioral research personnel, based on suitable assumptions concerning levels of research support, by allowing the analysis to be directed by demographic factors and by expert judgments concerning the emergence of new areas of knowledge and technology. In addition, it seems feasible in the initial period to develop econometric models of supply and demand in these fields, using national time-series data for the biomedical and behavioral sciences in the aggregate, and to test such models for their applicability.
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