The national institutes of health physician-scientist workforce working group report: A roadmap for preserving the physician-scientist

摘要

We all tend to get jaded by the deluge of “reports” that emanate from our professional societies, Federal regulatory bodies, funding agencies and non-governmental organizations; however, sometimes a report is published that should be required reading for every member of the field. One such report is the “Physician-Scientist Workforce Working Group Report” (PSW-WG) published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in June 2014.1 Led by David Ginsburg, Sherry Mills, and Susan Shurin, the PSW-WG distilled a complex set of pushes and pulls that have adversely affected the physician-scientist workforce in the U.S. over the past two decades and created a set of excellent recommendations for the NIH to follow in order to stem the increasing loss of this critical national resource.