Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST): Do biomedical faculty members want institutional help?

Biomedical graduate students and postdocs are faced with systemic changes to the career landscape and these widespread changes have created a push to seek employment outside the tenure track, bench scientist career pathways. This study explored the role of faculty mentors’ perceptions of these syste...

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Published in:SN Social Sciences 2021-01, Vol.1 (1), Article 27
Main Authors: Chatterjee, Deepshikha, Ford, J. Kevin, Rojewski, Julie W., Watts, Stephanie W.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Education
Linguistics
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Psychology
Social Sciences
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Summary:Biomedical graduate students and postdocs are faced with systemic changes to the career landscape and these widespread changes have created a push to seek employment outside the tenure track, bench scientist career pathways. This study explored the role of faculty mentors’ perceptions of these systemic challenges and how it relates to their willingness to seek support from the graduate school at their institution to equip themselves and their trainees with the necessary information about career opportunities. Biomedical faculty members across five campuses in the United States, under the aegis of National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST), were surveyed. Results of hierarchical multiple regression reveal that faculty employment history and active mentoring, their perceptions of urgency of the problem, and career mentoring and faculty knowledge together explained willingness to endorse that graduate school support was needed to help mitigate these systemic issues. Implications for creating sustainable systemic change by deploying mentoring as a key lever are presented.
ISSN:2662-9283
2662-9283
DOI:10.1007/s43545-020-00029-x