Personnel Needs and Training for Biomedical and Behavioral Research 1979 Report (1979) / Chapter Skim
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3 Administrative Issues and Policy Changes
3 Administrative Issues and Policy Changes
Pages 41-49
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The Committee endorses such a program for heal th professions students, but bel ieves that shor t-term training programs in other areas should not be expanded significantly until additional funds are made ava il able . The Committee believes that establishing a short-term training program for heal th professions students can be an important step in helping to revisal ize the interest of these students in pursuing cl animal research careers.
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180-181) , the Committee noted that the absence of any increase in stipend Iesrels since 1974 has seriously eroded the economic position of trainees and fellows O The Committee pointed out that a continuation of this situation could result in difficul ties in recruiting individuals for research training and in enabling trainees and fellows to pursue their work on a fu11°time basis without diverting their attention from matters of training to those of subsistence.
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The Committee hopes that this significant reduction in predoctoraI training in 1980 will be a transient, temporary phenomenon. The Commi t tee i s pi eased the t Congress and DHEW have recognized the problem of stipend levels and urges that Congress provide appropriate levels of funding for research training while avoiding unintended, but serious, inequities and disruptions such as those which appear to be occurring.
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Under that procedure private universities received larger sums for their institutional support than did public institutions because the tuition costs, which are significantly higher in private schools, were included in the base amount of the training award to which the 25 percent fo ~ foul a was appl fed . The new procedure, to commence on July I, 1980,- will be based on a maximum allotment per trainee -- $3,000 per predoctoral and $5,000 per postdoctoral trainee.
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TRAINING POLICIES OF ADAMHA ADAMHA's administrative regulation that restricts NRSA predoctoral support to students who have completed 2 years of graduate training has been the subject of a Committee recommendation each of the last 2 years. Findings from the Committee's analysis of national human resource data suggest that additional ef forts are needed to provide opportunities for minorities to enter doctoral training programs.
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Program Directors are strongly encouraged to provide stipends in the f irst and second years of graduate work only in cases where promising students ~ especially women and minorities) would not have suf f icient resources to enable them to pursue their training on a full-time basis, and such students have expressed their commi tment to pursue research careers in areas related to alcohol ism ~ drug abuse, or mental heal th .
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~ 3 ~ ~ amended the previous authority to permit the use of NRSA support for training in heal th services research4: The Secretary shall, through the National Center for Heal th Services Research, the National Center for Heal th Statistics, and the National Center for Heal th Care Technology and using National Research Service Awards and other appropriate author i ties, undertake and suppor t 47
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ude the NCHSR will result in a more stable "federal commitment to the total heal th services research effort" (NRC, 1975-1978 1977 Report, pa 129 48
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4. This amendment makes research training support mandatory rather than permissive, and extends the NRSA authority to include the National Center for Heal th Statistics and the new Of f ice of Heal th Technology in add i t ion to the NCHSR .
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