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Hey All,
3 years ago @Fencer posted some data on NIH F30 NRSA awards and the size of MD/PhD programs.
Because I've been playing around with ggplot2 in R and was interested to see if anything had changed since, I followed his methodology and used the NIH RePORTER system to search for active F30s, downloaded and sorted the data according to institution, and then used AAMC T36 B-11 to find which institutions were awarded F30s as a proportion of their MD/PhD program size.
Here's what I found for all institutions with at least 2 active F30s as of 12/27/2016:
Minimum number of F30s awarded: 2
1st Quartile: 4
Median: 6.0
Mean: 6.4
3rd Quartile: 8.0
Max: 14.0
Minimum proportion of MD/PhD program with an active F30: 1.00%
1st Quartile: 4.0 %
Median: 7.4%
Mean: 8.4%
3rd Quartile: 11.4%
Max: 19%
While MSTPs dominate the number of active F30s by raw numbers, they also tend to be much larger than their non-MSTP counterparts. Also, it should be noted that AAMC T36 B-11 lists the total program size. It would be more appropriate to recreate these graphs using the proportion of each program with active F30s starting at GS1 and above (when one might be expected to apply for the F30). Unfortunately, we do not have that data. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine has 2 active F30s but it is not an MD/PhD program so I estimated the program size at 200 (50/yr * 4 -- I know it's a 5 year program, but it is already a fairly pointless datapoint in this graph and I noticed that after the fact).
There are programs like the one at the University of Washington that boast of having F30 funding rates of nearly 100%. However, it is obvious that not every MD/PhD student at the University of Washington is applying and obtaining an F30 (their F30/Program Size ratio is about 9%), so this information provides a little more context when reading those self-reported numbers.
One last observation: Where the hell is Johns Hopkins?
Note that I did not include the F31 (or CTSA) award in these graphs, but only the F30, which could explain why I did not retrieve F30/Program Size ratios quite as high as @Fencer did in 2013.
Hope this info is of interest to any of you. Please let me know if you have suggestions or further questions and I can go back to the data and try to respond when I have the time.
3 years ago @Fencer posted some data on NIH F30 NRSA awards and the size of MD/PhD programs.
Because I've been playing around with ggplot2 in R and was interested to see if anything had changed since, I followed his methodology and used the NIH RePORTER system to search for active F30s, downloaded and sorted the data according to institution, and then used AAMC T36 B-11 to find which institutions were awarded F30s as a proportion of their MD/PhD program size.
Here's what I found for all institutions with at least 2 active F30s as of 12/27/2016:
Minimum number of F30s awarded: 2
1st Quartile: 4
Median: 6.0
Mean: 6.4
3rd Quartile: 8.0
Max: 14.0
Minimum proportion of MD/PhD program with an active F30: 1.00%
1st Quartile: 4.0 %
Median: 7.4%
Mean: 8.4%
3rd Quartile: 11.4%
Max: 19%
While MSTPs dominate the number of active F30s by raw numbers, they also tend to be much larger than their non-MSTP counterparts. Also, it should be noted that AAMC T36 B-11 lists the total program size. It would be more appropriate to recreate these graphs using the proportion of each program with active F30s starting at GS1 and above (when one might be expected to apply for the F30). Unfortunately, we do not have that data. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine has 2 active F30s but it is not an MD/PhD program so I estimated the program size at 200 (50/yr * 4 -- I know it's a 5 year program, but it is already a fairly pointless datapoint in this graph and I noticed that after the fact).
There are programs like the one at the University of Washington that boast of having F30 funding rates of nearly 100%. However, it is obvious that not every MD/PhD student at the University of Washington is applying and obtaining an F30 (their F30/Program Size ratio is about 9%), so this information provides a little more context when reading those self-reported numbers.
One last observation: Where the hell is Johns Hopkins?
Note that I did not include the F31 (or CTSA) award in these graphs, but only the F30, which could explain why I did not retrieve F30/Program Size ratios quite as high as @Fencer did in 2013.
Hope this info is of interest to any of you. Please let me know if you have suggestions or further questions and I can go back to the data and try to respond when I have the time.
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