Lost in Translation: NIH Funding for Family Medicine Research Remains Limited

Article Figures & Data

Table 1.

National Institutes of Health Grant Dollars (in Millions) and Number of Grants Awarded to Departments of Family Medicine from 2002 to 2014

	2002–2006^*	2007–2010	2011–2014
Total grant dollars received by FM, 2014	$57 million	$76 million	$71 million
Total grant dollars awarded by NIH, 2014	$28,451 million	$38,002 million	$32,985 million
Total NIH grant dollars awarded to FM (%)	0.20	0.20	0.22
Total grants received by FM (n)	170	224	192
Total grants awarded by NIH (n)	60,227	71,777	65,603
Total NIH grants awarded to FM (%)	0.28	0.31	0.29

↵* Differs slightly from the findings of Lucan et al,⁴ who used data directly from the Office of Extramural Research.
FM, family medicine; NIH, National Institutes of Health.

Table 2.

Comparison of Awards Reviewed versus Awarded, for All Departments and Family Medicine Only^*

↵* Data obtained from the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). Funding. Available from: https://report.nih.gov/success_rates/index.aspx. Accessed July 19, 2016.