Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action.
Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.1002458
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发表时间：
2016-05
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Watkins ES
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作者：
Silva EA;Des Jarlais C;Lindstaedt B;Rotman E;Watkins ES
相对于可用的教职职位，博士后学者的供过于求导致人们呼吁更好地评估职业成果。在这里，我们报告了加州大学旧金山分校博士后成果的研究结果，并建议机构有义务确定其博士后校友的就业地点，并与当前和未来的学员分享此信息。此外，我们认为，由于培训环境和机构之间博士后学者的分类存在很大差异，地方调查比全国调查更有意义。我们提供了一个可供其他人采用的框架和方法，其目标是对美国各地的博士后职业成果进行细致的描述。本视角报告了加州大学旧金山分校博士后成果的研究结果，并建议可以使用相同的方法来帮助其他机构确定其博士后校友的就业地点，以期与当前和未来的学员分享此信息。
The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study of postdoctoral outcomes at the University of California, San Francisco, and suggest that institutions have an obligation to determine where their postdoc alumni are employed and to share this information with current and future trainees. Further, we contend that local efforts will be more meaningful than a national survey, because of the great variability in training environment and the classification of postdoctoral scholars among institutions. We provide a framework and methodology that can be adopted by others, with the goal of developing a finely grained portrait of postdoctoral career outcomes across the United States. This Perspective reports the results of a study of postdoctoral outcomes at UCSF and suggests that the same methodology could be used to help other institutions determine where their postdoc alumni are employed, with a view to sharing this information with current and future trainees.