Educational-Debt Relief for Clinical Investigators — A Vote of Confidence
- 31 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 346 (5) , 372-374
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200201313460516
Abstract
Programs of educational-debt relief sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently been enacted as a means of recruiting and retaining clinical investigators who perform patient-oriented research. Should these programs be extended immediately to include all physician-scientists? I am opposed to this suggestion, and my reasons follow.BackgroundOn November 13, 2000, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Public Health Improvement Act. The document contains the Clinical Research Enhancement Act, which includes provisions for the alleviation of the educational debt of nascent clinical investigators participating in the NIH extramural program.1 The proposed rules that would govern implementation of the . . .Keywords
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