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2 Crosscutting Issues
Pages 21-26

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From page 21...
... However, the fact that there are cent per year until this target was reached. Additionally, the two categories of postdoctorates -- NRSA trainees and postNIH pledged to budget for annual cost-of-living increases doctoral employees -- is a consequence of a federal decision to keep pace with inflation and to prevent the loss of buying to pay trainees a stipend (as opposed to a salary)
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From page 22...
... It is true that postdoctorate trainees cannot get university retirement benefits, but the cash value iNdireCt CoSt rateS lost is in fact less than the gain in income from not paying FICA. Not being on the human resources list of employees It is debatable whether training grants lead to a superior may cause frustration with issues such as parking and child or better trained individual in the long run.
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From page 23...
... have served a tremendously important role is fostering the early career development of both basic and clinical biomedi reSPoNSiBle CoNduCt of reSearCh cal researchers, use the same facilities as funded researchers and generate their own significant administrative costs, yet NIH's NRSA grants require awardee institutions to estabthey have the same 8 percent indirect cost allowance, which lish specific curricula in the responsible conduct of research. as best one can determine is arbitrary and is based on no Indeed, in late 2009 NIH issued a detailed policy statement carefully argued rationale.
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From page 24...
... Unfortunately, there on R01 grants become a part of the overall database. The are essentially no data on what careers prove to be attractive availability of such data would be enormously helpful to the to minority graduates after they leave postdoctoral training NIH in the development of sound future policy.
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From page 25...
... The NLM training grants (see Table 2-2) are administered iNterdiSCiPliNary fieldS aNd the emergeNCe as T15 programs, but although they are not formally desigof NeW kiNdS of traiNiNg ProgramS nated as NRSA programs, they do follow NRSA guidelines With the evolution of team science and the increasing for funding and training requirements and are in this sense dependence of research on interdisciplinary activities, new indistinguishable from the other programs emphasized breeds of scientists have emerged in recent decades.
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From page 26...
... Recommendation 2–9: The unique graduate training biomedical research workforce. Indeed, in the biomedical programs of the NLM, plus its postdoctoral fellowships postdoctorate pool more than 60 percent of the fellows are in biomedical informatics, should receive gradually foreign trained.
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