Physician-Scientist Workforce (PSW) Report 2014

Appendix IV: Physician-scientists Workforce Data

A5-1: Total Number of Individual NIH R01 Applicants by Degree, Race/Ethnicity and Gender (Fiscal Years 1999 - 2012)

Degree	Total	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
MD	15715	2402	2479	2385	2477	2495	2809	2763	2739	2560	2577	2667	3036	3113	3300
PhD	63359	9529	9730	9793	9838	10856	11915	12374	12506	11865	11995	12462	14066	14917	15539
MD/PhD	11446	2122	2175	2143	2241	2470	2794	2824	2910	2711	2751	2824	3108	3243	3359
Veterinarian	940	155	140	131	142	178	175	175	193	176	176	193	223	205	243
Dentist	633	111	120	108	99	104	108	96	106	97	96	95	120	123	129
Other	469	20	23	26	26	26	45	46	39	28	54	51	81	74	70
Race/Ethnicity
Asian	14360	1989	2077	2165	2413	2772	3131	3283	3517	3553	3696	3779	4440	4647	4821
Black	1784	203	197	218	237	259	293	286	283	304	251	286	354	360	404
Hispanic	3274	381	423	441	499	539	624	628	674	650	647	717	810	843	898
Native**	179	24	32	28	26	32	33	29	25	22	22	32	30	33	35
White	65110	11232	11434	11180	11135	12099	13203	13521	13510	12429	12118	12291	13462	14338	14840
Gender
Female	28001	3630	3706	3825	3960	4349	4933	5066	5177	4867	5059	5510	6395	6793	7054
Male	64820	10431	10685	10567	10759	11681	12857	13182	13289	12549	12648	12931	14400	15346	16037
Age (6 Age Groups)
30 or less		81	51	59	60	57	51	59	51	47	48	38	49	32	20
31-40		3460	3461	3261	3330	3602	3618	3545	3473	3333	3337	3500	3867	3427	3265
41-50		6004	6098	6153	6136	6582	7196	7254	7329	6774	6733	6832	7512	7742	7822
51-60		3044	3241	3284	3512	3847	4477	4757	4805	4526	4703	4979	5457	5814	6097
61-70		787	809	836	899	1102	1321	1413	1487	1434	1618	1745	2087	2378	2584
71+		119	151	158	144	185	203	200	205	225	221	267	353	373	418
MD
Female	3671	449	478	462	501	534	629	624	638	631	665	719	801	823	892
Male	11638	1871	1925	1870	1935	1933	2163	2133	2092	1922	1907	1942	2214	2286	2387
PhD
Female	20625	2742	2774	2901	2956	3283	3676	3805	3874	3642	3714	4030	4688	4955	5145
Male	41348	6584	6746	6735	6799	7498	8183	8506	8579	8190	8206	8353	9270	9866	10254
MD/PhD
Female	2281	347	370	392	410	449	530	532	541	501	532	585	675	719	695
Male	9002	1750	1784	1737	1815	2010	2251	2277	2355	2202	2212	2230	2423	2521	2654
Veterinarian
Female	260	37	35	30	36	43	46	42	49	50	48	49	56	44	62
Male	663	113	103	101	105	132	128	132	141	126	128	144	167	161	180
Dentist
Female	157	23	25	23	25	21	17	17	30	20	24	23	39	39	36
Male	464	87	94	83	73	82	90	79	76	77	72	72	81	83	93
MD
30 or less		*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	0	*	*	*
31-40		428	430	383	382	391	361	329	303	309	308	318	360	291	302
41-50		1105	1161	1096	1186	1132	1266	1212	1177	1062	1033	1035	1060	1136	1103
51-60		455	483	493	554	583	693	740	737	702	744	791	927	912	969
61-70		176	170	178	160	209	241	227	244	222	242	258	318	333	427
71+		38	40	41	40	41	59	46	64	56	49	67	93	95	100
PhD
30 or less		69	46	53	53	50	44	54	45	40	43	35	43	26	15
31-40		2449	2516	2420	2489	2731	2799	2798	2804	2714	2677	2820	3130	2850	2702
41-50		3806	3787	3875	3756	4117	4417	4510	4571	4291	4282	4375	4905	5136	5231
51-60		2124	2255	2310	2404	2641	3072	3264	3236	3012	3049	3156	3431	3637	3805
61-70		460	477	497	572	712	852	939	998	978	1089	1175	1383	1631	1708
71+		58	76	83	64	101	100	112	91	111	117	130	166	189	223
MD/PhD
30 or less		*	*	*	0	*	*	0	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
31-40		516	441	403	407	426	402	359	325	271	274	265	266	210	188
41-50		953	1024	1062	1073	1191	1364	1379	1409	1285	1243	1203	1309	1249	1259
51-60		392	431	405	480	551	616	671	738	726	776	856	908	1096	1141
61-70		127	138	136	141	151	204	217	218	203	242	257	317	344	382
71+		22	33	32	35	39	41	39	47	55	51	60	85	79	89
Veterinarian
30 or less		0	0	*	*	*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31-40		36	35	25	27	35	29	28	20	19	18	14	26	18	16
41-50		63	58	60	61	76	83	89	106	89	76	93	99	82	90
51-60		33	26	27	28	34	38	32	39	39	49	50	51	54	72
61-70		13	12	14	12	17	15	13	11	15	14	20	17	21	22
71+		*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Dentist
30 or less		0	0	0	0	0	0	*	0	*	0	*	0	0	0
31-40		20	25	21	12	*	17	*	*	13	*	*	11	*	*
41-50		55	51	41	44	54	43	42	44	34	39	31	35	40	45
51-60		24	27	30	27	25	32	26	32	28	33	31	40	42	40
61-70		*	*	*	*	*	*	11	*	13	11	13	20	16	18
71+		0	0	*	*	*	*	0	*	*	0	*	*	*	0
Other
30 or less		*	*	0	0	*	0	0	*	*	*	0	0	0	0
31-40		*	*	*	*	*	*	15	*	*	16	11	15	6	13
41-50		*	*	11	*	*	13	*	*	5	14	12	19	12	17
51-60		*	*	*	*	*	15	15	12	12	10	13	13	20	10
61-70		*	0	0	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
71+		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	0	0	*	*	0
MD
Asian	1900	227	245	229	263	320	364	356	376	415	408	436	507	536	545
Black	372	36	43	51	49	57	62	53	57	53	56	53	73	67	81
Hispanic	659	84	91	89	110	104	112	113	129	117	121	129	140	143	159
Native**	18	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
White	11161	1946	1992	1907	1934	1934	2168	2152	2098	1903	1856	1852	2048	2135	2254
PhD
Asian	9425	1341	1386	1447	1614	1804	1973	2120	2275	2270	2351	2398	2855	3006	3174
Black	1098	130	117	125	142	157	177	173	167	192	149	188	221	239	253
Hispanic	1998	215	238	258	282	312	378	393	411	391	395	445	499	518	561
Native**	134	19	26	19	19	22	22	22	19	19	17	26	24	25	26
White	44809	7450	7601	7525	7431	8252	8960	9263	9276	8624	8383	8523	9340	9972	10254
MD/PhD
Asian	2646	367	399	437	485	573	728	740	786	799	854	857	976	990	975
Black	180	27	25	35	35	33	38	37	44	40	36	37	44	34	48
Hispanic	472	69	78	80	91	110	116	108	101	120	113	124	133	145	142
Native**	16	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
White	7393	1602	1613	1535	1558	1707	1837	1868	1900	1698	1662	1687	1810	1932	2028
Veterinarian
Asian	173	27	25	31	31	47	41	41	52	44	51	56	60	59	62
Black	33	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Hispanic	50	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	15	13	*	11	11	15	15
Native**	*	0	0	0	0	*	0	*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
White	595	109	99	85	92	105	108	111	110	106	100	107	125	111	136
Dentist
Asian	88	21	17	16	16	24	19	19	25	23	20	17	20	21	27
Black	12	*	*	*	0	*	*	*	*	0	*	0	*	*	*
Hispanic	45	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	11	*	*	*	*	15	16
Native**	*	0	*	0	0	*	0	0	0	0	0	*	*	0	0
White	427	79	87	80	74	71	75	68	68	64	63	67	73	74	72
MD (Average Age)
Female		45.4	45.7	46.4	46.1	46.4	46.7	47.2	47.8	47.5	47.5	48.4	48.2	49.2	49.4
Male		48.3	48.3	48.8	48.8	49.3	50.1	50	50.5	50.5	50.9	51.1	52	52	52.8
PhD (Average Age)
Female		45.3	45.6	46.1	46.3	46.4	46.8	47	47.2	47.2	47.3	47.5	47.4	48.1	48.6
Male		46.5	46.8	46.9	47	47.4	47.7	48	47.9	48	48.4	48.4	48.7	49.4	49.7
MD/PhD (Average Age)
Female		44.3	45.5	45.6	46.5	46.8	46.9	47.4	47.8	48.3	48.8	49	49.3	49.9	50.4
Male		46.9	47.5	47.7	48	48.1	48.6	48.9	49.4	49.7	50.1	50.7	51.2	52.1	52.4
Veterinarian (Average Age)
Female		43.4	44.2	46	46.1	45.9	46.3	47.4	48.1	48.4	48.6	47.8	47.6	50.3	50.4
Male		48.4	47.7	48.4	48.3	48.5	48.8	48.3	48.1	48.5	50.2	51	49.8	50.8	51
Dentist (Average Age)
Female		43.9	44.9	45.2	46.1	47.4	48.4	47.7	47.2	48.4	48.5	50.2	49.9	51.4	51.2
Male		47.1	48	49.1	50.3	49.1	48.8	50.1	50.4	50.8	51.1	51.6	53.3	53.6	52.5

*Data suppressed to avoid the disclosure of confidential information. Series with three or more suppressed data points are not displayed on the corresponding graph.
**Native refers to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders.

A5-1.1: Total Number of Individual NIH R01 Applicants: MD, PhD, and MD/PhD Degrees (FY1999-2012)