التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
NIH Told to Get Serious About Giving Minorities a Hand. |
| المؤلفون: |
Mervis, Jeffrey |
| المصدر: |
Science. 1/20/2006, Vol. 311 Issue 5759, p328-329. 2p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Graph. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*BIOMEDICAL technicians, *ALLIED health personnel, *BIOMEDICAL engineering, *MEDICAL technologists, *LABORATORY technicians, *MEDICAL laboratory science |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
| People: |
BAILAR, John |
| مستخلص: |
The article focuses on the relevance of the programs conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. A recent report by a National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) panel revealed that it is devilishly difficult to track participants through their training and into the workforce to find out if they have indeed achieved the gold standard of becoming biomedical researchers. The panel further asserted that NIH hasn't invested the time, money, or high-level interest needed for a proper evaluation, nor did it shared any existing data. There's no good way to track the success of these programs, says John Bailar, emeritus University of Chicago statistician and co-chair of the panel, part of NRC's Board on Higher Education and Workforce. Panel members deplored the lack of coordination among the programs, which are run by one or more of NIH's 27 institutes and centers. They questioned NIH's definition of success--the production of Ph.D. biomedical researchers good enough to win NIH funding--given the considerable opportunities open to those with less training and the importance of raising the level of public scientific literacy. INSET: Will This Bridge Take Me to the Lab?. |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
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