A Model for Postdoctoral Education That Promotes Minority and Majority Success in the Biomedical Sciences
A Model for Postdoctoral Education That Promotes Minority and Majority Success in the Biomedical Sciences
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DOI：
10.1187/cbe.17-03-0051
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Eaton, Douglas C.
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作者：
Eisen, Arri;Eaton, Douglas C.
美国如何保持其专业科学队伍中最高质量的研究和教学，并确保这些队伍中的人受到有效的培训，并代表国家人口结构？在通往科学事业的道路上，博士后阶段是形成性的，提供了定义一个人第一个教师职位的独立工作的经验。这也是一个阶段，在这个阶段，代表不足的少数族裔(URM)对追求科学领域的学术生涯失去了不成比例的兴趣，模型表明，在这一点上，通过干预提高URM在此类职业中的比例可能是最有效的。据我们所知，这是美国规模最大、持续时间最长的科学博士后项目，我们提出了一个混合方法的案例分析，来自17年的研究和科学教学(第一个)博士后项目。我们证明，与博士后总体形成鲜明对比的是，第一批研究员包括URM(50%的非裔美国人；70%的女性)，作为比较组，他们在研究员职位上取得或更成功(衡量标准是发表率、在学术科学职业中的就业情况，以及最终的研究资助)。对校友调查和焦点小组讨论的分析表明，第一批研究员最看重以队列为导向的社区以及该计划提供的发展性教学和研究培训。
How does the United States maintain the highest-quality research and teaching in its professional science workforce and ensure that those in this workforce are effectively trained and representative of national demographics? In the pathway to science careers, the postdoctoral stage is formative, providing the experiences that define the independent work of one's first faculty position. It is also a stage in which underrepresented minorities (URMs) disproportionately lose interest in pursuing academic careers in science and, models suggest, a point at which interventions to increase proportions of URMs in such careers could be most effective. We present a mixed-methods, case study analysis from 17 years of the Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) postdoctoral program, to our knowledge the largest and longest continuously running science postdoctoral program in the United States. We demonstrate that FIRST fellows, in sharp contrast to postdocs overall, are inclusive of URMs (50% African American; 70% women) and as or more successful in their fellowships and beyond as a comparison group (measured by publication rate, attainment of employment in academic science careers, and eventual research grant support). Analysis of alumni surveys and focus group discussions reveals that FIRST fellows place highest value on the cohort-driven community and the developmental teaching and research training the program provides.