How does the United States maintain the highest-quality research and teaching in its professional science workforce and ensure that those in this workforce are effectively trained and representative of national demographics? In the pathway to science careers, the postdoctoral stage is formative, providing the experiences that define the independent work of one's first faculty position. It is al...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of discontinuing the reporting of National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) Part I numerical scores on postgraduate program directors' admissions selection processes. This cross-sectional survey-based study collected information about two admissions cycles (2012-13 and 2013-14) from directors of American Dental Education Association Postdoctoral App...

The nursing discipline is currently witnessing an intriguing paradox. There is an international shortage of practicing nurses and nursing faculty. At the same time developments in nursing, involving advanced practice roles, graduate level education, and the significant knowledge development through research, is at its earnest. Needless to say that such developments vary substantially among coun...

Increasing the college graduation rates of underrepresented minority students in science disciplines is essential to attain a diverse workforce for the 21st century. The Research Internship and Science Education (RISE) program attempts to motivate and prepare students from the Atlanta Public School system, where underrepresented minority (URM) students comprise a majority of the population, for...

Women make up over one-half of all doctoral recipients in biology-related fields but are vastly underrepresented at the faculty level in the life sciences. To explore the current causes of women's underrepresentation in biology, we collected publicly accessible data from university directories and faculty websites about the composition of biology laboratories at leading academic institutions in...

11.1 Members Hirofumi Tomita (Team Leader) Yoshiyuki Kajikawa (Senior Scientist) Shin-ichi Iga (Research Scientist) Seiya Nishizawa (Research Scientist) Hisashi Yashiro (Research Scientist) Sachiho Adachi (Research Scientist) Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Special Postdoctoral Researcher) Yousuke Sato (Postdoctoral Researcher) Tsuyoshi Yamaura (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ryuji Yoshida (Postdoctoral Researche...

8.1 Members Seiji Yunoki (Team Leader) Yuichi Otsuka (Research Scientist) Shigetoshi Sota (Research Scientist) Shixun Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ahmad Ranjbar (Postdoctoral Researcher) James S. M. Anderson (Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher) Kazuhiro Seki (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, joint) Sandro Sorella (Senior Visiting Scientist) Takami Tohyama (Senior Visiting Scientist) Yutaka Imam...

Recent biomedical workforce policy efforts have centered on enhancing career preparation for trainees, and increasing diversity in the research workforce. Postdoctoral scientists, or postdocs, are among those most directly impacted by such initiatives, yet their career development remains understudied. This study reports results from a 2012 national survey of 1002 American biomedical postdocs. ...

Discussion of critical issues facing postgraduate education in general dentistry (PGD) and dental education in general has been intense in the past decade. This study reports on critical issues raised by directors of PGD programs that may help direct future research and action within dental education and the larger profession. The analysis reports responses to an open-ended question sent to all...

Osteopathic principles and practice (OPP) are considered the core, distinguishing elements of the osteopathic medical profession. As such, the American Osteopathic Association introduced Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institutions (OPTIs) in 1995 to further incorporate OPP into osteopathic graduate medical education. The current study describes the evolution of the OPP teaching programs at t...