BACKGROUND To address the shortage of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)-prepared nursing faculty, universities in the United States offer direct-entry Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)-to-PhD nursing programs. Little research has been conducted to explore students' perceptions of these programs and to formally evaluate the successes and opportunities for growth of this academic track. METHOD Focu...

Abstract The purpose of the present investigation is to analyze relation frustration tolerance and delay gratification with PhD-intention expectations. We conducted one correlational two experimental studies. In Study 1 ( N = 171 undergraduates), we found hypothesized positive association between intention obtain a PhD. Studies 2 3, used vignette designs. 2, doctoral students postdocs 180) eval...

The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. The article is based on secondary data analysis of two large studies on doctoral education in South Africa. The main point of the article is that the different understandings of the students and the PhD programme leaders, as well as t...

BACKGROUND Analysis of graduation success at the University of Split School of Medicine PhD programs conducted in 2011 revealed that only 11% of students who enrolled and completed their graduate coursework between 1999 and 2011 earned a doctoral degree. In this prospective cohort study we evaluated and compared three PhD programs within the same medical school, where the newest program, called...

A t the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), the PhD students organize an international symposium every 2 years. The authors of this article were all members of the organizing committee this year, and we are proud of the programme on offer, which includes a Nobel Prize winner and many other eminent speakers. Organizing the symposium has been a valuable experience for us, and a worthy addi...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are committed to increasing the number of PhD-prepared persons to meet the demand for well-trained behavioral, biological, and biobehavioral scientists. The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) program provides financial support for full-time PhD students who are committed to research careers i...