Centralized Oversight of Physician-Scientist Faculty Development at Vanderbilt: Early Outcomes
Centralized Oversight of Physician-Scientist Faculty Development at Vanderbilt: Early Outcomes
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DOI：
10.1097/acm.0b013e3181850950
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
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7.4
通讯作者：
Brown, Nancy J.
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作者：
Brown, Abigail M.;Morrow, Jason D.;Brown, Nancy J.
目的2000年，面对全国对医生-科学家人数减少的担忧，范德比尔特医学院建立了机构资助的范德比尔特医生-科学家发展计划(VPSD)，为医生-科学家的职业发展提供集中监督和财政支持。2002年，Vanderbilt开发了由美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)资助的Vanderbilt临床研究学者(VCR)计划，使用了类似的集中监督模式。作者评估了VPSD和VCR计划对2000年至2006年进入VPSD或VCR计划的physician-scientists.MethodPhysician-scientists早期职业成就的影响，并与同期接受第n次职业发展资助的Vanderbilt医生-科学家进行了比较。结果75%的VPSD和60%的VCR参与者在比对照队列更年轻的时候获得了个人职业奖励资金。在VPSD和VCRS学者中，这种向职业发展奖资助的年轻转变伴随着获得资助的新K奖数量增加2.6倍，以及Vanderbilt K奖美元的增长率超过K奖资助的全国增长率。结论对VPSD和VCRS项目的早期结果分析表明，集中监督可以催化机构获得资助的内科科学家数量的增长。对内科科学家这种职业发展模式的投资，可能对招聘和留住有才华的实习生和初级教员产生了额外的影响。
PurposeIn 2000, faced with a national concern over the decreasing number of physician-scientists, Vanderbilt School of Medicine established the institutionally funded Vanderbilt Physician-Scientist Development (VPSD) program to provide centralized oversight and financial support for physician-scientist career development. In 2002, Vanderbilt developed the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Vanderbilt Clinical Research Scholars (VCRS) program using a similar model of centralized oversight. The authors evaluate the impact of the VPSD and VCRS programs on early career outcomes of physician-scientists.MethodPhysician-scientists who entered the VPSD or VCRS programs from 2000 through 2006 were compared with Vanderbilt physician-scientists who received NTH career development funding during the same period without participating in the VPSD or VCRS programs.ResultsSeventy-five percent of VPSD and 60% of VCRS participants achieved individual career award funding at a younger age than the comparison cohort. This shift to career development award funding at a younger age among VPSD and VCRS scholars was accompanied by a 2.6-fold increase in the number of new K awards funded and a rate of growth in K-award dollars at Vanderbilt that outpaced the national rate of growth in K-award funding.ConclusionsAnalysis of the early outcomes of the VPSD and VCRS programs suggests that centralized oversight can catalyze growth in the number of funded physician-scientists at an institution. Investment in this model of career development for physician-scientists may have had an additive effect on the recruitment and retention of talented trainees and junior faculty.