Figures presented at a recent meeting of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Advisory Committee indicate that traditional training grants may not be the best route to producing physical researchers. The NIH director suggests that NIH give serious consideration to new policies emphasizing other mechanisms. Related issues are…

Asserts that the Minority Schools Bio-medical Support Program, begun by the General Research Support Branch, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, on December 1, 1971 has made it possible for men and women from ethnic minority groups to pursue careers in the biomedical and health sciences, it is stated. (Author/JM)