Changing Postdoctoral Career Patterns for Biomedical Scientists

Coggeshall, Porter E.; Norvell, John C.; Bogorad, Lawrence; Bock, Robert M.

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“…Between 1973 and 1977 the number of biomedical PhD graduates holding post-doctoral appointments (traditionally fixed, short term contracts) increased at an annual rate of 12.5% (Coggeshall et al 1978). More recent research undertaken in the United States reported that non-tenure-track faculty now comprise some 75 percent of teaching staff at colleges and universities, including research institutions involved in granting biomedical doctorates (Check 2007;Howell et al 2010).…”

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The biomedical doctorate in the contemporary university: education or training and why it matters

2011

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The form and function(s) of doctoral education continue to be a subject of much debate by stakeholders internal and external to the university. Notable concerns driving this debate derive from a seemingly discursive array of factors including increasing student numbers, increased understanding of the economic value of doctoral graduates, capitalisation of the academic market and a focus on allocating funding using ostensibly narrow, arbitrary measures of 'program success' such as completion rates/time to completion, all framed by a wider debate regarding precisely what constitutes valid knowledge in contemporary society. Within the university, the biomedical sciences are one area of scholarship undergoing rapid change in this respect. One of the salient outcomes of these internal and external dialogues is the apparent transition of biomedical doctoral education towards a 'training model' that places increasing emphasis on rapid completion and the generation of 'industry ready graduates'; a transition that is, potentially, occurring at the expense of the edifying and transformative aspects of biomedical doctoral education. Focusing on the effects of academic capitalisation, this paper draws on data from Australia and Europe to examine the drivers and potential effect(s) of this shift on contemporary doctoral education in the biomedical sciences. This paper acknowledges the potential benefit of contemporary developments whilst simultaneously concluding that by progressing too far towards a quantitatively assessed, industry-driven training model we risk eliminating the intellectual and societal transforming aspects of biomedical doctoral education that make graduates increasingly valuable to our economy and, just as importantly, to our society as a whole.

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The biomedical doctorate in the contemporary university: education or training and why it matters

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“…This paper is a review of postdoctoral training programs in pediatric psychology. At a national level, the behavioral sciences are but one of the biomedical areas which have experienced an increase in both the number of postdoctoral training programs and the absolute numbers of students seeking and obtaining postdoctoral training (Coggeshall, Norvell, Bogorad, & Bock, 1978). In large part an outgrowth of expanded federal involvement in graduate and postgraduate education since the late 1950s, these areas have slowed in the amount of federal expenditures allocated to them as reconsideration is given to the potential needs for such personnel (Wohlford, 1978).…”

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Postdoctoral Training Opportunities in Pediatric Psychology: A Review

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Postdoctoral training has become an increasingly more standard route for training in all of the biomedical sciences. Pediatric psychology, as a relatively new subspecialty within clinical child psychology, has emerged principally from training programs at the internship and postdoctoral level. The postdoctoral training programs in pediatric psychology known to be available are briefly reviewed, their characteristics discussed, and then the experience of the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center postdoctoral training program is reviewed in detail.

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Physics in non-european countries a guide to data sources, analyses and documents

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1983

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Changing Postdoctoral Career Patterns for Biomedical Scientists

Cited by 15 publications

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The biomedical doctorate in the contemporary university: education or training and why it matters

The biomedical doctorate in the contemporary university: education or training and why it matters

Postdoctoral Training Opportunities in Pediatric Psychology: A Review

Physics in non-european countries a guide to data sources, analyses and documents

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