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Primary care doc | Director, #Cancer Outcomes (COPPER) Center & Nat'l Clinician Scholars Program @Yale | Associate Editor @JAMAInternalMed | Tweets own
Apr 25, 2021 9 tweets 10 min read
For decades, receipt of multi-million $$ R01 @NIH grants has been crucial for med school research-focused faculty to gain promotion/tenure. **But this harms individuals & institutions** THREAD on why we must drop this “R01 Golden Ticket” mentality. (1/7) Why is the #R01GoldenTicket a problematic promotion criteria? First, ⬇️⬇️ in NIH funding paylines has raised the bar ⬆️⬆️ over time. Success rates for R01 proposals were 25%-30%; now hovering far lower:
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May 14, 2020 8 tweets 6 min read
THREAD: Our new #COVID19 disparities study now on @medrxivpreprint! *CAUTION: Preliminary findings; not peer-reviewed* We explored variation across states in race/ethnic disparities at the population level. bit.ly/2T6vcQv #healthequity 1/n First, as of late April, we found substantial variation across states in % of pts with missing race/ethnicity data. *Reporting race/ethnicity is not a simple yes/no* Quality matters, and it needs work. 2/n