The increasing importance of fellowships and career development awards in the careers of early-stage biomedical academic researchers
The increasing importance of fellowships and career development awards in the careers of early-stage biomedical academic researchers
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10.1371/journal.pone.0223876
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2019-10-17
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3.7
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Pickett, Christopher L.
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作者：
Pickett, Christopher L.
对生物医学教师职位的过度竞争加剧了从培训职位转向大学教师的需要，即积累一些高质量的出版物和著名的赠款。大学在考虑教师候选人时如何重视这些属性，对于理解作为学术教师取得成功所需的条件至关重要。在这项研究中，我分析了公开的NIH资助信息，以确定在培训期间首次获得R01（FTR01）的获奖者。FTR01人口中获得培训奖的比例增加表明，这些奖项正在成为候选人简历中更常见的组成部分。这一增长主要是由于2000年至2017年期间NIH K系列职业发展奖的扩大。具有K01，K08，K23或K99奖项的FTR01获奖者在一部分机构中比例过高，而具有F32奖学金的FTR01获奖者和没有培训奖的FTR01获奖者在机构中均匀分布。最后，来自最大机构的培训获奖者在大多数机构的教师中所占比例过高，这与其他领域的数据相呼应，其中少数几个机构为该领域的其他领域提供了绝大多数教师。这些数据提供了重要的洞察力，学员如何竞争NIH的资金和教师职位，以及机构如何更喜欢那些有或没有培训奖励。
Excessive competition for biomedical faculty positions has ratcheted up the need to accumulate some mix of high-quality publications and prestigious grants to move from a training position to university faculty. How universities value each of these attributes when considering faculty candidates is critical for understanding what is needed to succeed as academic faculty. In this study, I analyzed publicly available NIH grant information to determine the grants first-time R01 (FTR01) awardees held during their training period. Increases in the percentage of the FTR01 population that held a training award demonstrate these awards are becoming a more common component of a faculty candidate's resume. The increase was largely due to an expansion of NIH K-series career development awards between 2000 and 2017. FTR01 awardees with a K01, K08, K23, or K99 award were overrepresented in a subset of institutions, whereas FTR01 awardees with F32 fellowships and those with no training award were evenly distributed across institutions. Finally, training awardees from the largest institutions were overrepresented in the faculty of the majority of institutions, echoing data from other fields where a select few institutions supply an overwhelming majority of the faculty for the rest of the field. These data give important insight into how trainees compete for NIH funding and faculty positions and how institutions prefer those with or without training awards.