The AAMC has responded to a National Institutes of Health request for what NIH called "creative" and "radical" suggestions for its research and peer review systems. AAMC's feedback included requiring service as a peer reviewer for all investigators receiving NIH awards, reducing the length of the review and funding cycle to six months or less, allowing each investigator only one application at a time per mechanism (although one person could still have more than one grant), and reorienting the NIH intramural program to conduct research that is distinctive from and complementary to extramural research. For more information, please visit
http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/research/corres/2007/090607.pdf.