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Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
06-12-2007 · EurekAlert!Physician researchers with only an M.D. degree are less likely to receive NIH research grants than researchers with a Ph.D. degree or those with both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, according to a study in the June 13 issue of JAMA.
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