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1. Introduction and Summary of Numerical Recommendations, Fiscal Years 1982-1985
1. Introduction and Summary of Numerical Recommendations, Fiscal Years 1982-1985
Pages 7-22
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to revise and extend through FY 1985 its specific recommendations on the numbers of NRSA awards that should be provided for the support of predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in the areas of the basic biomedical and behavioral sciences, health services research and nursing research, and the numbers of postdoctoral awards in the clinical sciences; (2) to recommend an appropriate distribution of these awards between traineeships and fellowships for each of these broad categories of training; (3)
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AS a 5-year renewable grant which provides program as well as student support, the training grant provides an institutional continuity and focus on the research training process that individually awarded fellowships and research assistantships do not. In addition, the institutional component of the training grant provides valuable support for the training program, e.g., guest faculty seminars and research supplies.
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to departments to investigate the impact of the loss of training grant support on predoctoral training quality, with particular reference to the impact on the training environment. The findings of this study, reported in Chapter 3, support the belief that training grants significantly enhance training quality through their focus on graduate training in a milieu of active research, on student support, and on ancillary support of training program activities.
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PROSPECT IVE CHANGES IN RETIREMENT The Committee wishes to note that an unrelated congressional action on mandatory retirement taken several years ago is likely to have important effects within the coming year on the labor market for newly trained scientists. The 1978 amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act exempted tenured faculty members, for a period until July 1982, from the major provision of the Act, which raised the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70.
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In medical schools, clinical investigators perform patient care duties in addition to their teaching and research activities (Chapter 21. Even those clinical faculty members who are primarily engaged in research have devoted an increasing amount of tome in recent years to patient care, particularly through the expansion of community health-care programs at university medical centers.
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Estimation of the economic prospects for the biomedical and behavioral sciences depends in turn on the supply response of future potential graduate students. That is, the relative salaries and prospects for employment of these scientists depend on their number in the labor force, as well as on research budgets and the numbers of graduate students to be trained.
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One of the most significant new findings is that in recent years only slightly more than 20 percent of newly hired faculty members in clinical departments of medical schools have had postdoctoral research training, whereas a decade ago this rate was much higher. Perhaps more than any other evidence, this statistic highlights the deteriorating capabilities of many young medical school faculty members to conduct clinical research.
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In previous reports, the Committee has made recommendations in five broad scientific areas -- basic biomedical, behavioral, clinical, health services research, and nursing research -- while attempting to develop a methodology for estimating needs at more detailed levels within these areas. So far, compelling evidence of shortages in specific fields has been developed only in toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, and most of the clinical science f ields.
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/ ~ most rec lint date i / Data on faculty dynamics: / attrition and accession rates, postdoctoral train ing of new faculty, eta; / Recent data on number of 7 / postdoctoral trainees / / supported by N RSA programs / relative to total post- / L doctoral pool size / OUTPUTS Projections of academic / demand to 1985 l Size of postdoctoral pool required to meet estimated faculty needs through 1985 ~ 1 , / Estimated number of post- / J doctoral trainees to be / / supported by NRSA programs / / under various conditions / FIGURE 1.1 Flow diagram of procedure followed in deriving recommendations for postdoctoral training levels. Historical data on supply/demand indicators are updated annually and used to update the models of academic demand.
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The remaining areas of biomedical sciences, health services research, and nursing research had only minor reductions. In FY 1980, the total number of awards went up by 2 percent to 13,191 trainees and fellows, still below the FY 1978 level.
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The 1978 amendments to the NRSA Act authorized expenditures for this program of up to 4% of appropriated training funds. In FY 1980, 50 trair~ing grants were awarded win stipends for 911 trainees.
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Table 1.5 below shows the revised estimates for the NRSA programs using the current training recommendations under the following assumptions: (1) stipends will remain at the levels published in the new schedule effective July 1, 1980; tuition will increase by 5 percent per year; and institutional allowances will be limited to $3,000 for predoctoral trainees and $5,000 for postdoctoral trainees.
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bEstimate includes 1,000 predoctoral trainees in the short-term training program. ESTIMATED TRAINING COSTS PER AWARD IN FY 1980 (dollars)
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