scholarly journals A nationwide assessment of perceptions of research-intense academic careers among predoctoral MD and MD-PhD trainees

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-316
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Kwan ◽  
Omar Toubat ◽  
Andrew M. Harrison ◽  
Megan Riddle ◽  
Brian Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Career Selection ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Research Careers

AbstractIntroduction:While previous studies have described career outcomes of physician-scientist trainees after graduation, trainee perceptions of research-intensive career pathways remain unclear. This study sought to identify the perceived interests, factors, and challenges associated with academic and research careers among predoctoral MD trainees, MD trainees with research-intense (>50%) career intentions (MD-RI), and MD-PhD trainees.Methods:A 70-question survey was administered to 16,418 trainees at 32 academic medical centers from September 2012 to December 2014. MD vs. MD-RI (>50% research intentions) vs. MD-PhD trainee responses were compared by chi-square tests. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify variables associated with academic and research career intentions.Results:There were 4433 respondents (27% response rate), including 2625 MD (64%), 653 MD-RI (15%), and 856 MD-PhD (21%) trainees. MD-PhDs were most interested in pursuing academia (85.8%), followed by MD-RIs (57.3%) and MDs (31.2%). Translational research was the primary career intention for MD-PhD trainees (42.9%). Clinical duties were the primary career intention for MD-RIs (51.9%) and MDs (84.2%). While 39.8% of MD-PhD respondents identified opportunities for research as the most important career selection factor, only 12.9% of MD-RI and 0.5% of MD respondents shared this perspective. Interest in basic research, translational research, clinical research, education, and the ability to identify a mentor were each independently associated with academic career intentions by multivariate regression.Conclusions:Predoctoral MD, MD-RI, and MD-PhD trainees are unique cohorts with different perceptions and interests toward academic and research careers. Understanding these differences may help to guide efforts to mentor the next generation of physician-scientists.

The form, rhythm, and orchestration of an academic career: Cultivating and navigating inner compasses within institutional terrains

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2110363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liora Bresler
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Academic Trajectories ◽  
Research Careers ◽  
Academic Lives

The evolution of research careers is inherent to academic lives but rarely enters the research literature. In this autoethnographic paper, I reflect on composing, orchestrating, and performing my research journey. Shaped by intellectual and aesthetic pursuits, this journey is both experiential and conceptual, responsive to encounters with people and ideas that shaped my thinking and being. At the intersection of micro, macro, and meso contexts, the journey has been guided by inner compasses. While grounded within my own circumstances, the issues addressed in this article underlie academic trajectories. The article is written as an invitation to reflect on your own journeys and compasses; identify crossroads, blockages, and openings; and note evolving forms, changing rhythms, and nuanced orchestrations in the contrapuntal composition of life.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Career Intention Among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Single-center Cross-Sectional Study in Hubei Province

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-lin Wang ◽  
Ming-xiu Liu ◽  
Shuai Peng ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Chen Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background：Undergraduate medical (UM) students faced the realities of the difficulties inherent in medical careers due to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Thus imperative containment measures could affect UM students’ career intentions. There is limited information regarding the factors potentially associated with these students’ career change intentions.Methods：we conducted a cross-sectional survey to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on career intention and the associated factors in UM students in August 2020. Univariate analyses and logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors that contributed to any change of career intention.Results: A total of 2,040 medical students were contained from Hubei University of Medicine. The change of career intention was related to grade, attitude towards being a health worker and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Conclusions: Changes in career intentions were particularly influenced by grade, attitude towards being a health worker, and the degree of COVID-19’s impact on the participants’ lives. Treating large-scale public health emergencies in rational way, setting up correct views of occupation choice and building reasonable career planning may reduce the loss of medical talents.

scholarly journals 2292 Evaluating the impact of a K-award on clinical and translational research

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (S1) ◽  
pp. 55-55
Author(s):  
Elias M. Samuels ◽  
Thomas E. Perorazio ◽  
Ellen Champagne ◽  
Brenda Eakin
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Research Careers ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Clinical And Translational Research ◽  
Research Service

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Identify the impact of the provision of clinical and translational research training awards on investigators’ pursuit of clinical and translational research careers. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Propensity score matching and qualitative analysis/investigators receiving MICHR’s KL2 research training awards. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: While the evaluations of the impact of this service have shown participants find them to be valuable it is expected that participation in the workshop may be more beneficial to investigators with certain types of prior research experiences and who utilize more CTSA research support. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Because this evaluation of a research service incorporate data representing investigator’s receipt of different CTSA resources, the findings can be used to inform the ongoing coordination of these services in ways that optimize their impact on the production of clinical and translational research. There is an enduring need for evaluations of CTSA programs to account for investigators’ use of different constellations of research services in order to identify what combinations of services over time are most effective at fostering successful clinical and translational research careers.

scholarly journals Translational research in agriculture. Can we do it better?

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Passioura
Keyword(s):  
Abiotic Stress ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Effective Translation

‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops. Most of the failure has come from laboratory-based attempts to ameliorate abiotic stresses. Dealing with biotic stress has been much more successful; the control of pests and weeds is often enabled by transforming crops with single genes, for such genes have little or no influence on a crop’s metabolism. By contrast, abiotic stress varies with the weather; i.e. crops respond systemically, over a range of levels of organisation (e.g. cells, tissues, organs), with many feedbacks and feedforwards. Drought is the most pervasive form of abiotic stress. There are 4600 papers that have searched, ineffectively, for ‘drought resistance’, a term that usually defies useful definition. By contrast, dealing with a measured, limited water supply (e.g. seasonal rainfall), rather than with ‘drought’, has effectively increased water-limited yield through agronomic innovation based on improving water-use efficiency. ‘Salt tolerance’ has similar difficulties; nevertheless, physiological knowledge has revealed effective single genes, in contrast to the failures of empirical gene prospecting. Another important goal has been to increase potential crop yield by exploring mechanistic opportunities to improve photosynthetic efficiency. These attempts have not, so far, succeeded, perhaps because they have rarely broached physiological responses beyond carbon balance, such as metabolic responses to environmental challenges that may affect meristematic development. A major reason for the predominant failure of translational research from laboratory to field is that the peer-review system is too narrow; i.e. reviewers have the same backgrounds as the authors. Effective translation will require the addition of reviewers who can assess the pathway from laboratory to field.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of a summer school in influencing medical students' attitudes towards psychiatry

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 367-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Beattie ◽  
Clare Lister ◽  
Julie May Khan ◽  
Peter L. Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Recruitment Strategies ◽  
Longitudinal Impact ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Positive Shift ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Summer Schools

Aims and methodSummer schools are advocated as part of the national recruitment initiative despite little evidence of their impact. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a 3-day non-clinical initiative. Change in attitudes and career intention were measured by administering a questionnaire, which included the 30-item Attitudes Toward Psychiatry (ATP-30) survey, at the start and end of the event.ResultsMean ATP-30 scores increased from 119 to 128, which represented a highly statistically significant change (t = 5.40, d.f. = 18, P < 0.001). A positive shift in intention to pursue psychiatry as a career was demonstrated.Clinical implicationsThese results suggest well-planned summer schools can have a significant impact on students' attitudes. Despite high initial ATP-30 scores a positive shift in attitudes and career intentions was still seen. Further evaluation of the longitudinal impact is needed. Events such as this are important and likely produce a cumulative effect alongside other recruitment strategies.

scholarly journals Does initial postgraduate career intention and social demographics predict perceived career behaviour? A national cross-sectional survey of UK postgraduate doctors

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e026444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Marion Scanlan ◽  
Jennifer Cleland ◽  
Suzanne Anderson Stirling ◽  
Kim Walker ◽  
Peter Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Specialty Training ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Original Intention

ObjectiveStudies indicate that initial career intentions and personal characteristics (eg, gender) can influence medical career decision-making. However, little is known about how personal characteristics and intention interact with career decision-making. To address this gap, we examined the link between career intention at the start of the 2-year UK Foundation Programme (FP) and career intentions on its completion.MethodsData came from the 2017 UK National Career Destination Survey, a cross-sectional study completed by all second year foundation doctors. We included respondents’ demographics (gender, graduate status on entry to medical school, career intention on starting the FP) and career intention as an outcome measure (eg, specialty (residency) training (UK), NHS non-training posts/further study, career break, working abroad). Multinomial regression was used to assess the independent relationship between background characteristics and career intention.ResultsThere were 6890 participants and 5570 usable responses. 55.9% of respondents were female and 43.1% were male, 77.1% were non-graduates and 22.9% were graduate entrants to medical school. Approximately two-thirds (62.3%, n=2170) of doctors who had an original intention to pursue specialty training after F2, still intended to do so on completion. Most of those who stated at the start of F2 that they did not want to pursue specialty indicated at the end of F2 they would be undertaking other employment opportunities outwith formal training. However, 37.7% of respondents who originally intended to pursue specialty training on FP completion did something different. Graduate entrants to medicine were more likely to immediately progress into specialty training compared with their peers who did medicine as a primary first degree.ConclusionOriginal intention is a strong predictor of career intentions at the end of the FP. However, a considerable proportion of doctors changed their mind during the FP. Further research is needed to understand this behaviour.

scholarly journals Real STEM: An Interdisciplinary STEM Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Robert Mayes ◽  
Kent Rittschof ◽  
Bryon Gallant ◽  
Charlie Martin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
The Real ◽  
Stem Programs ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
Competency Based

The integration of STEM programs within the educational framework through the establishment of STEM-designated schools and academic/career pathways is a national trend in the United States. The goal of implementing STEM in grade 6 to 12 schools is to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century, while addressing future workforce needs. Often, however, the STEM disciplines are taught within silos independent of each other. Students miss the opportunity to participate in the interrelationship between the STEM disciplines, resulting in missed opportunities to build critical reasoning skills. The Real STEM project focused on the development of interdisciplinary STEM experiences for students. The project was characterized by sustained professional development which was job-embedded and competency-based, and focused on the development of five STEM reasoning abilities within real-world contexts. To accomplish this we promoted inclusion of tasks that drew on multiple STEM disciplines, embraced the use of authentic teaching strategies, and supported development of collaboration through interdisciplinary STEM professional learning communities within the school and STEM experts from the community. The four tenets of the Real STEM project are presented, research on impact on teacher practice is provided, and school and teacher takeaways are discussed.

scholarly journals Diversity in Psychological Research Activities: Quantitative Approach With Topic Modeling

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachio Otsuka ◽  
Yoshiyuki Ueda ◽  
Jun Saiki
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Geographic Regions

Recent cultural studies have discussed universality and diversity in human behavior using numerous samples investigated worldwide. We aimed to quantitatively extend this discussion to various research activities in psychology in terms of geographic regions and time trends. Most psychology departments have specialists in various fields of psychology. Further, research institutions in all regions typically aim to provide systematic and balanced research education. Nevertheless, most researchers recognize universal features and patterns of diversity in research activities in psychology in terms of regional differences and time trends. However, these arguments remain intuitive and vague, and no studies have conducted quantitative analyses. To this end, we conducted topic modeling for the abstracts of psychological articles with the regions of author affiliations and publication periods as covariates. The results showed that the topic proportions related to basic research were high in North-Central America, whereas those related to clinical research were high in Europe. Interestingly, the regional differences shown by topic modeling were not observed in the frequency analysis of keywords, indicating that topic modeling revealed implicit characteristics. Moreover, we observed an increasing trend of neuroscience topics across publication periods. However, this trend was not valid for the psychology journal Psychological Science. Taken together, our results suggest diversity of geographic regions and periods in research activities in psychology. More importantly, our findings indicate that universality holds neither for human behavior nor research activities on human mental processes.

scholarly journals Gender disparities among medical students choosing to pursue careers in medical research: a secondary cross-sectional cohort analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Snyder ◽  
David Xiang ◽  
Alison Smith ◽  
Shannon Esswein ◽  
Omar Toubat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Career Selection ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Research Careers ◽  
Selection Factors ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Though the proportion of women in medical schools has increased, gender disparities among those who pursue research careers still exists. In this study, we seek to better understand the main factors contributing to the existing gender disparities among medical students choosing to pursue careers in medical research. Methods A secondary cross-sectional cohort analysis of previously published data was conducted using a 70-item survey that was sent to 16,418 medical students at 32 academic medical centers, and was IRB exempt from the need for ethical approval at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Data was collected from September 2012 to December 2014. Survey results were analyzed using chi-square tests and Cramer’s V to determine gender differences in demographic characteristics (training stage, race/ethnicity, marital status, parental status, financial support, and parental career background), career sector choice, career content choice, specialty choice, foreseeable career obstacles, and perceptions about medical research careers. Results Female respondents were more likely to be enrolled in MD-only programs, while male respondents were more likely to be enrolled in MD/PhD programs. More male students selected academia as their first-choice career sector, while more female respondents selected hospitalist as their first-choice career sector. More female respondents identified patient care and opportunities for community service as their top career selection factors, while more male respondents identified research and teaching as their top career selection factors. Student loan burden, future compensation, and work/life balance were the most reported obstacles to pursuing a career in medical research. Conclusions There are many factors from a medical student’s perspective that may contribute to the existing gender disparities in pursuing a career in medical research. While much progress has been made in attracting nearly equal numbers of men and women to the field of medicine, active efforts to bridge the gap between men and women in medical research careers are needed.

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