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[moomix906]

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are there benefits to more NIH money awarded a school/affiliated hospitals, besides the most straightforward one? (i.e. more research money = more research lab = more research opportunities) And please explain why you think your benefit would enhance a medical school education?

 

[tdd340]

Indirectly it leads to better/newer infastructure and equipment.

 

[45408]

the schools with too much NIH funding just give it to their med students to buy cool stuff with

 

[SupergreenMnM]

Yeah, thats whats known as "fringe" in NIH grants. Its for things like health insurance and dodge vipers 😀

 

[Instatewaiter]

NIH funding is a good measure of how much and how novel the research at a given school is. Compared to other grants, an NIH grant is pretty hard to come by. I would think that NIH funding is also a good measure of how cutting edge the treatments, say for cancer, are going to be.

In terms of drastically changing how your first 2 years are, it is pretty much going to do very little.

 

[notdeadyet]

Biggest benefit of NIH funding is the impact it has on a school's USN&WR ranking. That's a huge recruiting tool!