Using an Internet grant and scholarship notification service as a research tool.
By using specific key words, clinicians can use an Internet database service to identify federally funded grant and scholarship opportunities--opportunities more frequently sought by basic scientists. The authors hypothesized that such an Internet service could be used as a research tool to examine and compare the clinical research preferences of potential medical and bioscience investigators. The authors selected 577 key words from an online key word thesaurus used by both the federal government and ScienceWise.com. These key words formed a survey instrument to measure the research interests of 40 family medicine academic faculty members of a college of osteopathic medicine. The findings were compared to a survey by ScienceWise.com of its 102,578 subscribers and to previous surveys of nonacademic clinicians. Results indicate an efficient means of determining research interests as well as a method of alerting academic clinicians/nonclinicians and basic scientists to current funding opportunities.
Clarke
Howard F
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University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Fort Worth 76107, USA. hclarke@hsc.unt.edu
Coleridge
Samuel T
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D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*