Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists Summary of the 1993 Public Hearings (1994) / Chapter Skim
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The most significant challenge for maintaining an adequate supply of qualified biomedical scientists is to reverse the view that we (the teachers) have managed to communicate a fear of science, coupled with the ability to make science appear difficult and, even worse, dull.
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Graduate dentists with advanced education and training began to publish in major scientific journals (PARS, J Biol Them, Immunology, Microbiology, Neurosciences, Developmental Biology, Materials Sciences, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, JDR, etc.) , and began to serve on the editorial boards of major scientific journals.
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The Committee is encouraged to look at the sequence and scope of the American educational pipeline in order to ensure increased representation of women and minorities in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. We need national "mentor programs" to couple young children, especially females and historically underrepresented minorities, with established biomedical and behavioral research scientists as role models in order to nurture the next generations.
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