PURPOSE This study aimed to analyze gender differences in rank, career duration, publication productivity, and research funding among radiation oncologists at U.S. academic institutions. METHOD For 82 domestic academic radiation oncology departments, the authors identified current faculty and recorded their academic rank, degree, and gender. The authors recorded bibliographic metrics for phys...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a preliminary investigation to determine if injuries sustained while playing professional rugby league have long term consequences for players after retirement from their playing careers. METHOD Twenty eight retired players, who had competed in the professional Australian Rugby League competition, responded to a 23 item survey. Respondents were asked to recall all injurie...

Public service. It's a term that has fallen into disregard in recent years as cynicism has replaced optimism about so-called government work and those who do it. Yet there are those who have chosen to follow the ideal of public service espoused by John F. Kennedy when he said "[A]sk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.` One of these people is George W. Luc...

The Compleat Academic, edited by Darley, Zanna, and Roedigger, offers fascinating insights into the formal and informal rules for succeeding as an academic. Written as a compilation of advice by successful psychology faculty, it covers the academic career progression from graduate school, to postdoctoral fellowships, to early and tenured faculty positions. The authors provide a realistic job pr...

To examine how gender functions in the narrative construction of dual career styles, and these styles impact (dis)continuation a pathway. Longitudinal qualitative study. Life story interviews with 18 talented Finnish athletes (10 cis women, 8 men) at four points time – when they averaged 16, 17, 19, 20 years age followed by an integrative narrative-discursive analysis. (a) contrapuntal style wa...

There comes a time when every young (or not so young!) scientist needs to find a job. It doesn’t matter whether you’re searching for a post-doc position, a professorship or a job in the biotech industry, there is a multitude of job-search and career resources on the web. The first stop in your job search should be the online versions of Science, Nature and Cell. Although these sites carry the s...

This paper develops a model of career concerns. As in Holmström (1999), a worker’s productive abilities are revealed over time through output, and wages are based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, work increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves an observable breakthrough. It is shown that effort at different times are strategic substitutes. As as result...