3.3 - The Scientist

Define your research interest

1. Basic Sciences [MD/PhD]

2. Clinical Sciences [MD/MSc]

3. Public Health [MD/MPH]

Research Funding

1. Goverment

2. NGOs

3. Private

What is a Deans Tax?

Dean's Tax to Funded Mission Support

Is It Time to Abolish the Dean's Tax?

While its methodology and percentage vary by university, the typical "dean's tax" is an assessment applied to topline professional revenue generated by the school's clinical faculty. It provides much-needed funding to the dean for overhead costs of the medical school, cross-subsidization of mission-critical programs, and/or start-up packages (e.g., for department chairs and faculty).

https://www.ecgmc.com/thought-leadership/blog/is-it-time-to-abolish-the-deans-tax

Modernizing Mission Support: Approaches for Academic Health Systems

As discussed in our article " Is It Time to Abolish the Dean's Tax?," schools of medicine (SOMs) have often applied a top-line professional revenue tax-the dean's tax-to provide an additional source of funding to the academic enterprise.

https://www.ecgmc.com/thought-leadership/articles/modernizing-mission-support-approaches-for-academic-health-systems

Publish or Perish - Funding is crucial for success

Private Practice is a "GOLD Mine" for Research!

The corruption of modern academic medicine - How your doctor was bought

Many doctors are genuinely puzzled why much of the general public does not trust what they say. For example, there's the GOOP story. Gwenyth Paltrow sells lots of scientifically iffy wellness products on her website, and there's many doctors and 'health professionals' frothing at the mouth trying to 'debunk' her theories.

https://drjasonfung.medium.com/the-corruption-of-modern-academic-medicine-how-your-doctor-was-bought-fe8c250d7a46

Impact of Pandemic on Research Funding

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Extramural Scientific Workforce - Outcomes from an NIH-Led Survey

The Scientific Workforce Diversity (SWD) Office leads NIH's effort to diversify the national scientific workforce and expand recruitment and retention. We invite you on this journey to establish NIH as the national scientific workforce diversity leader by widening and deepening our ways of thinking and practice.

https://diversity.nih.gov/blog/2021-03-25-impact-covid-19-pandemic-extramural-scientific-workforce-outcomes-nih-led-survey

Europe More Affected as compared to US

10% Cut in Research Funding

A pandemic is no time to cut the European Research Council's funding

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is furious. The mathematician is interim president of the European Research Council (ERC), and is outraged by proposals that the agency's budget for 2021-27 is to be cut by €1.3 billion (US$1.5 billion), a reduction of almost 10% from the €14.7 billion that had been proposed by the European Commission in 2018.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02620-x

Cuts in cancer research funding due to COVID-19 - PubMed

Cuts in cancer research funding due to COVID-19

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33341123/

AAN Advocacy for Research Funding [Rise Act]