Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas

Being an academic neurosurgeon or neurologist is difficult everywhere. In Chile this is getting harder for several reasons. We review the process behind research grant applications for funding in Fondecyt, the Chilean government research funding agency. The number of grants proposals submitted and a...

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Autor principal: Fadic,Ricardo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía 2004
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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-922720040003000012004-11-08Investigación en Neurociencias ClínicasFadic,Ricardo clinical research academic neurociences clinical research funding Being an academic neurosurgeon or neurologist is difficult everywhere. In Chile this is getting harder for several reasons. We review the process behind research grant applications for funding in Fondecyt, the Chilean government research funding agency. The number of grants proposals submitted and approved by academic neurologist and neurosurgeons has decreased dramatically in the last few years. The main cause for this decline is we compete with basic scientists who present their projects to the Neurology-Neurosurgery category instead of their own kind. This unequal competition does not occur for the majority of other medical specialties. Research done by clinicians is of the paramount importance for maintaining and developing academic Neurology and Neurosurgery in Chile. We should be allowed to compete with other clinical peers for research funding. We are optimistic that we will be able to follow the tradition of academic excellence of our predecessorsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y NeurocirugíaRevista chilena de neuro-psiquiatría v.42 n.3 20042004-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-92272004000300001es10.4067/S0717-92272004000300001
institution Scielo Chile
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic clinical research
academic neurociences
clinical research funding
spellingShingle clinical research
academic neurociences
clinical research funding
Fadic,Ricardo
Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
description Being an academic neurosurgeon or neurologist is difficult everywhere. In Chile this is getting harder for several reasons. We review the process behind research grant applications for funding in Fondecyt, the Chilean government research funding agency. The number of grants proposals submitted and approved by academic neurologist and neurosurgeons has decreased dramatically in the last few years. The main cause for this decline is we compete with basic scientists who present their projects to the Neurology-Neurosurgery category instead of their own kind. This unequal competition does not occur for the majority of other medical specialties. Research done by clinicians is of the paramount importance for maintaining and developing academic Neurology and Neurosurgery in Chile. We should be allowed to compete with other clinical peers for research funding. We are optimistic that we will be able to follow the tradition of academic excellence of our predecessors
author Fadic,Ricardo
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title Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
title_short Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
title_full Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
title_fullStr Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
title_full_unstemmed Investigación en Neurociencias Clínicas
title_sort investigación en neurociencias clínicas
publisher Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía
publishDate 2004
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