Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Medical School Faculty: Trends in Grants and Evaluation of University Research Office Efforts, ISBN 157440-163-7.

This report looks closely at the recent experience in obtaining grants of 141 randomly chosen medical school faculty from over 50 medical schools in the USA and other countries. The report gives detailed data on the change in grant receipts in the past year, and on per researcher grant receipts, and annual spending from grants, as well as the percentage of grants accounted for by the NIH or similar national bodies. The report also presents the views of medical faculty on how much they feel that they have been helped by the university office responsible for assisting in grant procurement efforts, as well as their views of which aspects of their funding efforts require the most assistance. Data is presented separately on topics such as navigating NIH rules and regulations, finding non-NIH grant sources, grant writing, and much more.

Just a few of the report’s findings are that:

• In the past year the average total value of grants obtained by the labs in the sample fell by a mean of 2.13%. 
• More than 47% of survey participants felt that they needed help or some help with grant writing skills. American participants were far more likely than those from other countries to feel that they needed help in this area.
• The mean value of grants obtained was more than $1.2 million for tenured faculty but only $303,000 for the untenured on a tenure track.

The 60-page study is available for $149.00; the PDF is currently available and the print version will be available on April 21’st, 2011. Site licenses are also available.  For a table of contents and sample data view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.