Garrison Howard H, Gerbi Susan A, Kincade Paul W
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
FASEB J. 2003 Dec;17(15):2169-73. doi: 10.1096/fj.03-0836life. Epub 2003 Oct 2.
Has the dramatic growth in the NIH budget affected the training and production of biomedical Ph.D.s? Examination of new survey data reveals surprising findings. Despite the need for an increased workforce to carry out the expansion in biomedical research, there has not been an increase in new U.S. doctorates awarded, and time-to-degree in the biomedical sciences is no longer increasing. Furthermore, both the frequency and length of postdoctoral appointments are decreasing for U.S. biomedical science recipients. There has been, however, continued growth in the number of foreign postdoctorals. Industrial employment of biomedical scientists continues to increase, but there has been only modest growth in tenured or tenure-track academic jobs.
美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）预算的大幅增长是否影响了生物医学博士的培养与产出？对新调查数据的审视揭示了惊人的发现。尽管需要增加劳动力来开展生物医学研究的扩张，但美国新授予的博士学位数量并未增加，生物医学领域获得学位所需的时间也不再增加。此外，美国生物医学专业博士毕业生的博士后任命频率和时长都在降低。然而，外国博士后的数量持续增长。生物医学科学家在产业界的就业人数持续增加，但终身教职或终身教职预备岗位的增长幅度不大。
