@article{b93a097d83604286b3752e5e4b1aa00d,
title = "Training the next generation of biostatisticians",
abstract = "Biostatisticians have become an integral part of medical research for the design and analysis of laboratory, epidemiology, and clinical studies. The demand for this expertise has increased over the past several decades, while the supply has remained relatively constant. The skills required to be a successful statistical collaborator go beyond the traditional statistics courses taught in graduate school. We describe the challenges facing those training the next generation of biostatisticians.",
keywords = "Biostatistics, Training",
author = "Demets, {David L.} and Dan Anbar and William Fairweather and Louis, {Thomas A.} and O{\textquoteright}Neill, {Robert T.}",
note = "Funding Information: Biostatistics as a recognized discipline is less than 50 years old, having started in the late 1940s with the growth of systematic medical research in the United Kingdom and the United States. The development of biostatistics has been particularly noticeable over the past 30 years with the increasing use of controlled clinical trials for the evaluation of new drugs, which has been stimulated by federal regulations requiring evidence for safety and efficacy. This growth has been seen in academic teaching and research environments, in the pharmaceutical industry, and in federal regulatory and research agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH in particular has been a leading institution in this development. Recently the explosion of research and development in biotechnology has opened new areas for the application and development of biostatistics. There is also increasing emphasis on controlled trials of medical devices to establish their safety and efficacy. The field of statistics, which focuses on medical, biological, and environmental sciences, has also developed an international professional society, the International Biometric Society, with a membership of over 5,000. Biostatisticians focus mostly, but not exclusively, on the medical sciences.",
year = "1994",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1080/00031305.1994.10476080",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "280--284",
journal = "American Statistician",
issn = "0003-1305",
publisher = "American Statistical Association",
number = "4",
}