Internship experiences contribute to confident career decision making for doctoral students in the life sciences

AM Schnoes, A Caliendo, J Morand… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2018 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration (GSICE) program at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers structured training and hands-on experience …

Exploring the impact of formal internships on biomedical graduate and postgraduate careers: An interview study

D Chatterjee, JK Ford, J Rojewski… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2019 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Graduate students and postdocs in science, technology, engineering, and math fields are
faced with a wide range of career paths to employment, but they are often not trained to …

Alumni perspectives on career preparation during a postdoctoral training program: A qualitative study

JM Faupel-Badger, K Raue, DE Nelson… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2015 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Published evaluations of career preparation of alumni from long-standing postdoctoral
fellowship programs in the biomedical sciences are limited and often focus on quantitative …

Putting PhDs to work: career planning for today's scientist

JA Hobin, PS Clifford, BM Dunn, S Rich… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2014 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Individual development plans (IDPs) have been promoted nationally as a tool to help
research trainees explore career opportunities and set career goals. Despite the interest in …

[HTML][HTML] The declining interest in an academic career

M Roach, H Sauermann - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
There is increasing evidence that science & engineering PhD students lose interest in an
academic career over the course of graduate training. It is not clear, however, whether this …

[HTML][HTML] Career planning courses increase career readiness of graduate and postdoctoral trainees

RL Layton, VSH Solberg, AE Jahangir, JD Hall… - …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Given national calls for intentional career development during graduate and
post-graduate scientific training, this study assessed career readiness development within …

Factors that influence the transition of university postdocs to non-academic scientific careers: An exploratory study

CS Hayter, MA Parker - Research Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
While postdoctoral fellowships are viewed as positions that prepare PhD students for
academic careers, studies show that most postdocs will not find tenure-track employment …

Improving graduate education to support a branching career pipeline: Recommendations based on a survey of doctoral students in the basic biomedical sciences

CN Fuhrmann, DG Halme, PS O'sullivan… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Today's doctoral programs continue to prepare students for a traditional academic career
path despite the inadequate supply of research-focused faculty positions. We advocate for a …

Career development among American biomedical postdocs

KD Gibbs Jr, J McGready, K Griffin - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2015 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Recent biomedical workforce policy efforts have centered on enhancing career preparation
for trainees, and increasing diversity in the research workforce. Postdoctoral scientists, or …

[HTML][HTML] The “new normal”: Adapting doctoral trainee career preparation for broad career paths in science

R St. Clair, T Hutto, C MacBeth, W Newstetter… - Plos one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Doctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences and STEM fields are showing increased
interest in career opportunities beyond academic positions. While recent research has …