The NIH clinician-investigator award: How to write a training grant application

TY - JOUR

T1 - The NIH clinician-investigator award

T2 - How to write a training grant application

AU - Pollock, Raphael E.

AU - Balch, Charles M.

N1 - Funding Information: Replenishing the rapidly shrinking national pool of clinicians who can apply “state of the art” scientific approaches to solving clinical problems poses a major challenge to the academic medicine community in the United States. In 1984, of 483,000 practicing physicians in this country, only 20,000 (less than 4%) were involved in academic research, and 1000 leave academic medicine annually [l]. Consequently, 1000 new M.D. researcher-practitioners are needed every year merely to maintain the size of the current pool of researchers [ 11. The problem is further compounded in the surgical disciplines, where the national shortage of surgical scientists is at least partly due to the 5 or more years required to complete a surgical residency. In surgical oncology, for example, at least 24 months of additional full-time research training is usually needed to be competitive for National Institute of Health funding. Therefore, it is not surprising that at this time, fewer than 40 surgeons hold grants of any type from the National Cancer Institute [2]. In spite of these problems, research fellowship opportunities exist, including programs sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, the American Cancer Society, the Association for Academic Surgery, and the American Surgical Association. The National Institutes of Health sponsors several training programs, including the Physician/Scientist, Academic Investigator, and the Clinician Investigator (K 08 Award Series) programs. The K 08 Clinician Investigator Award Program was begun in 1984 by the National Cancer Institute, with a specific mandate to increase the number of cancer-oriented research physicians in the United States. The K 08 Clinician Investigator program is a good example of a specific training grant mechanism that may be generically applicable to other surgical specialties. The K 08 award is a 3-year grant, competitively renewable for 2 additional years, that requires the applicant to Funding Information: The NIH Clinician-Investigator Award: Training Grant Application’

PY - 1989/1

Y1 - 1989/1

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U2 - 10.1016/0022-4804(89)90173-X

DO - 10.1016/0022-4804(89)90173-X

M3 - Article

C2 - 2915532

AN - SCOPUS:0024570510

SN - 0022-4804

VL - 46

SP - 1

EP - 3

JO - Journal of Surgical Research

JF - Journal of Surgical Research

IS - 1

ER -