Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Two workshops (2001, 2003) were held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the need to train more biostatisticians in the U.S. to meet the increasing opportunities in the biomedical research enterprise. The supply of new PhD graduates in biostatistics in the U.S. has been relatively steady for the past two decades while the demand has increased dramatically. These workshops concluded that a renewed effort must be made in the U.S., led in part by the NIH, to add to and expand the existing training programs to increase the supply. This article summarizes those two workshops and their recommendations. Some progress has been made through a new biostatistics training program with emphasis in bioinformatics sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Statistics in Medicine
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2668
Authors: David L. DeMets, Gary Stormo, Michael Boehnke, Thomas A. Louis, Jeremy Taylor, Dennis Dixon
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: University of Pennsylvania, Emory University, University of Washington, University of South Carolina, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Eye Institute, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Center for Research Resources
OpenAlex ID: W2110588971