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Funding Sources

In a cost-sharing arrangement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under contract HHSN263200900009C, the NIH covers half of the expenses for certain AAMC staff associated with the Faculty Roster.

Uses

The NIH uses the Faculty Roster to help inform a variety of policy decisions, often through the merging of Faculty Roster data with NIH data on grants, trainees, and fellows. Over the years, the merged data has assisted the NIH to address a variety of issues, such as the aging of faculty, the recruitment of new assistant professors, the proportion of faculty pursuing scholarly activity, and the representation of IMG faculty versus other faculty among NIH principal investigators. In addition, the NIH has utilized Faculty Roster staff for special reports on topics such as the percent of neuroscience trainees becoming faculty members; the percent of "Yellow Berets" becoming deans, chairs, or faculty; and the proportion of surgical faculty receiving NIH awards.

The Faculty Roster has served as a popular resource for a variety of analyses outside the NIH as well. The current bibliography of Faculty Roster citations contains over 255 publications on topics such as minority and female faculty representation, faculty attrition, foreign-educated faculty, postdoctoral versus nonpostdoctoral career paths, and faculty research activity.

Other benefits of the Faculty Roster include the opportunity for individuals to be contacted by medical schools, federal agencies, and other organizations seeking to announce positions, awards, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and free materials of interest to medical school faculty or department chairs. Complimentary Web reports to aid management and planning activities are available to the Faculty Roster representatives at each participating medical school. Among these reports are continuously updated alumni reports that show the number of graduates from each medical school who have become faculty members or chairs.