Labor and skills gap analysis of the biomedical research workforce
Labor and skills gap analysis of the biomedical research workforce
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DOI：
10.1096/fj.201500067r
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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4.8
通讯作者：
Wiest, Jonathan S.
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作者：
Mason, Julie L.;Johnston, Elizabeth;Wiest, Jonathan S.
在过去的30年里，美国经历了生物医学研究劳动力不可持续的增长。这种扩张导致了无数的后果，包括研究人员数量和可用的终身教职职位的不平衡，博士后培训时间延长，第一批美国国立卫生研究院R01资助的研究人员年龄增加，以及寻求传统职业生涯以外的人才外流。如果没有关于生物医学研究劳动力市场的准确数据，解决这些问题以及为学员提供可行的职业选择和在职业生涯中富有成效所需的技能方面的挑战仍然存在。我们分析了劳动力趋势，整合了传统劳动力市场信息和实时工作数据。我们生成了当前生物医学研究劳动力的概况，在区域和国家层面上对劳动力中的职业进行了劳动力差距分析，并评估了核心和补充职业之间的技能转移性。我们的结论是，尽管劳动力的供应和劳动力中职业的职位数量在过去十年中有所增长，但供应继续超过需求。此外，我们从实时职位发布中识别实用技能，为学员提供最佳的职业装备，以有效满足未来的劳动力需求。
The United States has experienced an unsustainable increase of the biomedical research workforce over the past 3 decades. This expansion has led to a myriad of consequences, including an imbalance in the number of researchers and available tenure-track faculty positions, extended postdoctoral training periods, increasing age of investigators at first U.S. National Institutes of Health R01 grant, and exodus of talented individuals seeking careers beyond traditional academe. Without accurate data on the biomedical research labor market, challenges will remain in resolving these problems and in advising trainees of viable career options and the skills necessary to be productive in their careers. We analyzed workforce trends, integrating both traditional labor market information and real-time job data. We generated a profile of the current biomedical research workforce, performed labor gap analyses of occupations in the workforce at regional and national levels, and assessed skill transferability between core and complementary occupations. We conclude that although supply into the workforce and the number of job postings for occupations within that workforce have grown over the past decade, supply continues to outstrip demand. Moreover, we identify practical skill sets from real-time job postings to optimally equip trainees for an array of careers to effectively meet future workforce demand.