The vanishing physician-scientist?

AI Schafer - Translational Research, 2010 - translationalres.com
National Institutes of Health (NIH), rang the first alarm about physician-scientists as an
''endangered species.''1 Indeed, trends since then seem to be increasingly discouraging.
Although NIH grant applications and awards to investigators with PhD degrees have steadily
risen, and in fact, they have surged during the 5-year period of doubling of the NIH budget
from 1997 to 2002, they have remained flat even during boom years for those with only MD
degrees. The physician-scientist workforce has also been aging. The mean age at which a …