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program. The committee will gather and Many of these improvements have a common theme: Very analyze information on employment and education trends fundamental basic research provided an understanding of of research scientists in the broad fields of the biomedical, human physiology that ultimately resulted in improved behavioral, and clinical sciences, and in the subfields of oral health care.
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for the health of the current and future research workforce in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences. Given the current and projected future economic environfuture WorkforCe ProJeCtioNS ment, it is unlikely that the NIH budget will allow for the For each of the three major areas considered -- biomedical implementation of recommendations that require new exters ciences, behavioral and social sciences, and clinical nal funds.
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This should be done by bud (3) NIH should consider an increase in the indirect cost geting regular, annual increases in postdoctoral stipends rate on NRSA training grants and K awards from 8 peruntil the $45,000 level is reached for first-year appoint cent to the negotiated rate currently applied to research ments, and stipends should increase at the cost of living grants.
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Graduate student and postdoctoral training programs that educate and Program evaluation and future Coordination train students who are funded by RPGs should be subject to the same expectations for diversity of trainees that are One aspect of training programs that has not been evaluexpected of training grants. Such programs should be ated to date is how the value of the research training was perrequired to provide assurance on R01 grant applications ceived by the program director and the trainees themselves.
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However, training programs in basic behavioral evaluating training grant applications, especially com- and social sciences that cut across disease categories and peting renewals, should be instructed to broaden their age cohorts should be housed at NIGMS, which would conception of "successful" training outcomes to recognize be consistent with the NIGMS congressional mandate. nontraditional outcomes that meet important national Given its disciplinary expertise, the Office of Behavioral priorities and needs in the biomedical, behavioral, and and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
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institutes that provide NRSA support and, because of that, Partnerships between NIDCR and other components of has difficulty balancing training and research support. In the academic health system need to be developed and consideration of the size of the NINR budget and the acute maintained based on recognition of the value added by need for nursing faculty, NIH should request additional the oral health sciences.
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higher has been of enormous benefit in training the workforce education systems, chronic inadequacy of science education responsible for the dramatic advances in the understanding of in K-12, and other conditions that may arise. Strengthening disease and has provided insights that have led to more effec- the NRSA and related training programs will help them meet tive and targeted therapies.
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