A Pediatric Department's Innovative Grant Writing Workshops

Sustaining the pipeline of engaged, productive physician-scientists in pediatric departments is crucial to the mission of academic pediatrics. Today, however, physicians are less likely to pursue biomedical research than ever before.1-7 Although retention, promotion, and tenure guidelines are changing at academic institutions, obtaining extramural funding remains one of the most important measures of scholarship.1 Despite the academic importance of extramural funding, grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding agencies to physician-scientists are declining.

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