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Transparency in Ph.D. career outcomes: The growing snowball

March 5, 2018 By Chris Pickett

Improving transparency in Ph.D. career outcomes has been a consistent recommendation for more than 20 years-worth of reports on reforming the biomedical research enterprise. While some institutions have launched robust career outcome data collection and publication projects, these efforts have long been isolated to individual universities. However, a series of recent community-wide efforts suggest broad […]

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Universities launch initiative to improve transparency around biomedical Ph.D. careers

December 14, 2017 By Chris Pickett

Today, nearly a dozen university presidents announced the formation of the Coalition for Next Generation Life Sciences (publication; website), which is committed to collecting and publishing data on demographics and career outcomes of biomedical Ph.D.s and postdocs. Rescuing Biomedical Research has worked with many CNGLS members and members of the National Institutes of Health’s Broadening […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: biomedical research enterprise, career outcomes, graduate students, postdocs, postdoctoral scholars, Rescuing Biomedical Research

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Comments by Andrea Repetto

Posted: November 3, 2016

Non-PhD level positions undervalued

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Comments by Andrea Repetto

Posted: November 3, 2016

Reward negative results

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Comments by Holly Hamilton

Posted: September 13, 2016

(1) The training model thus far is that of the medieval apprentice- a trainee is to become a clone of his/her supervisor. (2) Trainees are rarely permitted to conduct work not expressly assigned/approved by supervisor. (3) Training goals for postdocs at a national level are unspecified. (4) All postdocs are trained as if they will become academic research professors.

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