Contact UsData and Reports on the Biomedical Research Workforce
This website contains references and links to data and reports of the biomedical research workforce.
NIH Data
NIH Reports
Reports from the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health highlight the composition of the biomedical workforce and provide recommendations for future enhancements:
- ACD Working Group on the Biomedical Research Workforce (2012)
- ACD Working Group on Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce (draft report, 2012)
- ACD Working Group on the Physician-Scientist Workforce (2014)
Information on National Institutes of Health grant awards, including fellowships, training grants, career development awards, the loan repayment programs, as well as national statistics on graduate students and postdoctorates is reported in the:
- The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavior Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through (2018)
- Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018)
- Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (2011)
- Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences (2011)
- A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (2011)
- Research-Doctorate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences: Selected Findings from the NRC Assessment (2011)
- National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (2017)
- Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
- Science and Engineering Indicators (2016)
- Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards
- Survey of Doctorate Recipients
- Survey of Earned Doctorates
- Profile of Early Career Doctorates:2015
Other Data Resources
- Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM (2013)
- Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research (COEUR) Council on Undergraduate Research (2012)
- What Matters to student success: a review of the literature: Commissioned Report for the National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success: Spearheading a Dialog on Student Success (2006)
- Understanding Interventions, UI Index
- Council of Graduate Schools
- Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century (2018)
- The impact of postdoctoral training on early careers in biomedicine (2017)
- Predictors of Student Productivity in Biomedical Graduate School Applications (2017)
- The Limitations of the GRE in Predicting Success in Biomedical Graduate School (2017)
- Using Longitudinal Data on Career Outcomes to Promote Improvements and Diversity in Graduate Education (2016)
- Biomedical science postdocs: an end to the era of expansion (2015)
- The Impact of NIH Postdoctoral Training Grants on Scientific Productivity (2011)
- Careers of an elite cohort of US basic life science postdoctoral fellows and the influence of their mentors' citation record (2010)
- An institutional post-doctoral research training program: Predictors of publication rate and federal funding success of its graduates (2009)
- Report of the Special Committee on Physician Scientists & Continuing Certification (2016)
- National Institutes of Health Career Development Awards for Cardiovascular Physician-Scientists: Recent Trends and Strategies for Success (2015)
- NIH research funding and early career physician scientists: continuing challenges in the 21st century (2014)
- Physician Scientists: Assessing the Workforce (2013)
- Outcome Evaluation of the National Cancer Institute Career Development Awards Program (2013)
- Career Outcomes of the Graduates of the American Board of Internal Medicine Research Pathway, 1995-2007 (2013)
- Evaluation of the NIH Individual Mentored Career Development Awards Program (2011)
- Final Report on Three Focus Groups with Early Career Clinical Researchers About the K23 Award Program (2001)
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