Whatever the stage of graduate training, none of the proposed career paths were found to be unpopular — not
even academic research careers.
Not exact matches
Academic careers pose tripartite demands of
research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving
research and writing for
evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.
In service of that institutional need,
academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for
academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and
even nonresearch endeavors.
It is common for those whose
research takes off to begin their
academic careers with an afternoon clinic and 2 months of service per year and end up with 1 month only or
even no clinical responsibilities.
Finally, the report noted that most biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States do little to prepare biomedical scientists for
careers outside of academia
even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in
academic research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.
This results in a glut of postdoctoral trainees who,
even though they are aware that only 14.3 % of PhDs in the life sciences end up in tenure track position 5 years after receiving their PhDs, still strive to become
academic researchers themselves (44 % of postdocs in the life sciences name faculty -
research as their preferred
career outcome - see below).
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