Challenges to the transition to independent investigator in geriatric mental health. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: The author reports on the extent to which junior investigators in geriatric mental health successfully make the transition to independent scientists. METHODS: The NIH CRISP database identified all NIMH Level-1 career awards (K01/K07/K08/K23/ R29) in geriatric mental health completed from 1992 to 2001. RESULTS: Of 46 awardees, 14 (30.4%) achieved R01 funding within 1 year of completion. An additional six investigators subsequently achieved R01s in the remaining follow-up period (ranging from 2 to 10 years), for a total of 43.5% (20/46). CONCLUSIONS: These data underscore the relatively small number of junior investigators who successfully make the transition to independent scientist. Their numbers underscore the importance of efforts by the field of geriatric mental health aimed at both increasing the flow into this career as well as ensuring the retention and success of junior investigators at the critical transition to independent investigators.

publication date

  • January 1, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Awards and Prizes
  • Health Services for the Aged
  • Mental Health Services
  • Research Personnel

Identity

PubMed ID

  • 12724115

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 3