Where the Jobs Are: A Study of Amstat News Job Advertisements

DeMets, David L.; Woolson, Robert F.; Brooks, Curtis; Qu, Roger

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“…In 1998, DeMets and co-authors reviewed the number of positions advertised in the Amstat News (the official newsletter of the American Statistical Association) during the years 1990-1994 [1]. Most academic and government research PhD level positions are advertised in this newsletter as are some industry positions.…”

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Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.

DeMets

Stormo

Boehnke

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Statistics in Medicine

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Two workshops (2001, 2003) were held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the need to train more biostatisticians in the U.S. to meet the increasing opportunities in the biomedical research enterprise. The supply of new PhD graduates in biostatistics in the U.S. has been relatively steady for the past two decades while the demand has increased dramatically. These workshops concluded that a renewed effort must be made in the U.S., led in part by the NIH, to add to and expand the existing training programs to increase the supply. This article summarizes those two workshops and their recommendations. Some progress has been made through a new biostatistics training program with emphasis in bioinformatics sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Growth In Market Demandmentioning

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Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.

DeMets

Stormo

Boehnke

et al. 2006

Statistics in Medicine

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“…The rate of new PhD trained statisticians has not increased for the past two decades while the number of positions has increased dramatically [38]. The need to mine the genomics data will increase the demand even more, far beyond the current supply.…”

Section: Training the Next Generationmentioning

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Clinical trials in the new millennium

DeMets

2002

Statistics in Medicine

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Since the introduction of the randomized clinical trial (RCT) over 50 years ago, this method has become the corner stone for evaluating new pharmacologic or biologic agents with many disease areas benefiting. There are numerous examples demonstrating beneficial interventions as well as others either not beneficial or harmful. Statistical methodology for clinical trials has grown rapidly. Advances in information technology for data collection have allowed trials to be conducted around the world. Academia, industry and government have worked in partnership to conduct RCTs. Despite these many RCT achievements, the most interesting and challenging era of clinical trials lies ahead of us. With the human genome now sequenced, we face a new set of challenges to transform vast amounts of data into useful information. The post-genomics era will better identify the disease mechanism and thus help design better treatments, and be more selective in screening patients, yielding more efficient clinical trials. For some areas of medicine, such as medical devices, standards of acceptance and regulatory approval are changing. Other areas, such as medical procedures and alternative medicines, are generally not well evaluated and could benefit greatly from a wider use of RCT methodology. As the ICH guidelines facilitate and encourage international clinical trials, the scientific and ethical dimension of conducting trials in Third World countries are raised. For example, Western society's best standard of care may not be available or affordable to these countries as the control Western investigators should not exploit patients in the Third World. Those and many other challenges face us in the decade ahead. It is truly an exciting time with new opportunities for the RCT to contribute to medicine and health care or prevention.

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“…To date, 105 of these advertisements have been analysed using content analysis, a commonly used method in advertisements studies (Crossley, 1992;Demets et al, 1998;Headrick, 2001;Mathews & Redman, 2001). For all advertisements, general information were recorded when provided, including the job title, location and industry type.…”

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A Review of Web-Based Job Advertisements for Australian Event Management Positions

Arcodia

Barker

2002

Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism

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Strong growths in the Australian event management industry, ongoing technological changes and the internationalisation of the market place has spurred the need for appropriately educated and trained event managers and for a re-evaluation of educational and job training curriculum to meet these new challenges. In order for Australia to position itself as a world leader in event management, it is important to provide consistent high professional standards and event managers that not only meet, but exceed the demands of the industry. While there is some literature that focuses on the tourism and leisure job market (Crossley, 1992;Keung & Pine, 2000), and a small but developing literature base that focuses on event management training (Harris & Jago, 1999;Hawkins & Goldbatt, 1995) relatively little consideration has been given to a national agenda for event management skilling.To provide an indication of current employer requirements, a nationwide study of job advertisements in event management has commenced. The aims of the study are to further the understanding of the educational needs and training requirements of the industry; to ascertain the learned skills and personal attributes sought from event managers; to determine the compatibility of industry demands with current educational and vocational provisions; and to suggest post-secondary institutional avenues through which event management education and training needs can be pursued. This is an ongoing study and it is hoped that it will contribute towards a broad scale understanding of the event management job market. More importantly however, it can be used as the basis for curriculum evaluation and training needs, and create a better understanding and compatibility between event management education and industry practice. This paper reports the preliminary results from a content analysis of approximately 100 webbased job advertisements. Email alert accounts were established with several search engines to gather a sample of event management related job advertisements from around Australia. An analytical framework was devised for the analysis of the advertisements themselves. The results reveal several interesting trends including the geographical concentration of the event management job market, the range of industries that require event management specialists or event management skills, and a series of required skills and key attributes of event managers. The results of this study establish a platform from which to develop a classification of event management skills required by the industry. BACKGROUND

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Where the Jobs Are: A Study of Amstat News Job Advertisements

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Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.

Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.

Clinical trials in the new millennium

A Review of Web-Based Job Advertisements for Australian Event Management Positions

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