Dental students at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) participate fully in the first two years of the curriculum with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) while also taking parallel dental classes. HSDM students were first exposed to problem-based learning (PBL) in 1987 when the "New Pathway" curriculum was introduced at HMS in the first two years of the medical school curriculum (the HSD...

Acknowledgements: We thank our previous research assistants and postdoctoral fellows for test preparation, behavioral testing, and imaging data collection, and the participating children and their families for their cooperation in taking part in our experiments. The human brain has the remarkable capacity to alter in response to environmental demands. Training-induced structural brain changes h...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the characteristics of health policy and systems research training globally and to identify recommendations for improvement and expansion. METHODS We identified institutions offering health policy and systems research training worldwide. In 2014, we recruited participants from identified institutions for an online survey on the characteristics of the institutions and ...

The opportunities in basic science for graduating PhD students and for aspiring physician-scientists have never been so extraordinary. The sequencing of the human genome and the development of the human haplotype map have enabled scientists to begin to unravel the basis of complex multigenic disorders. Rapid developments in stem cell biology are affecting many areas of cardiovascular biology an...

The life of a junior scientist—usually as a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher—is rarely easy. The job often involves relocating to another city or even another country, which can be difficult and can disrupt personal relationships. Long working hours, often extending into evenings or weekends, inevitably clash with the scientist’s private life. Crucial experiments or research projects migh...

The Biochemist spoke to Deborah O’Neil, the CEO and founder of NovaBiotics, find out about her journey commercialization research. A biotechnology entrepreneur immunologist by training, has over two decades experience in drug discovery development was named as one 20 women leaders European biotech 2019. In 2020, made OBE Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services biotechnology, industry charity...

The article reveals the main characteristics of modern process professional socialization novice scientists, as it proceeds in Russia comparison with foreign countries. It is shown that widespread view associated period postgraduate studies and preparation defence a dissertation for degree does not correspond to realities which can be both early (postgraduate) late (postdoctoral). At same time,...

We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers' (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US. We analyze changes in the productivity of postdocs before and after the US government's 1997 decision to increase NIH funding. In the first round of analysis, we find that more government spending has resulted in longer postdoc care...