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Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.
Author(s) -
DeMets David L.,
Stormo Gary,
Boehnke Michael,
Louis Thomas A.,
Taylor Jeremy,
Dixon Dennis
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.2668
Subject(s) - biostatistics , action (physics) , medical education , training (meteorology) , library science , computer science , operations research , medicine , public health , mathematics , nursing , physics , meteorology , quantum mechanics
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.