Purpose Many postdoctoral scholars are seeking professional learning and development (PLD) opportunities to prepare for diverse careers, roles responsibilities. This paper aims develop an evidence-informed framework PLD of that speaks these changing career paths. Design/methodology/approach used integrated knowledge translation approach synthesize extend previous work on scholars’ PLD. The auth...

The goals of this study were to 1) evaluate dental students' perceptions of dental specialties, 2) identify factors that play an important role in students' decision to pursue specialty training or career choices, and 3) establish a baseline of students' perceptions of the dental fields with the best future in terms of salary, personal and patient quality of life, and overall impact on the dent...

have a successful career in science,” he said. “While that’s good for the development office, it represents a complete change of career path for him.” Also, several previously successful junior clinician–scientists “are reconsidering whether being physician–scientists is a successful career path for them.” Linda Malkas, Ph.D., deputy director of basic science research at City of Hope in Duarte,...

What causes professionals in organizations to practice differently in similar situations? This paper studies practice variation in team decisions, among physicians trainees, who frequently switch teams and are randomly assigned patients. I identify the effect of relative experience on influence in team decisions by a discontinuity in relative experience across the one-year tenure mark. The infl...

Mahmoud Zarei was born in Hamedan, Iran in 1986. He received his B.Sc. in pure chemistry (2010) from Islamic Azad University Arak and M.Sc. in organic chemistry (2013) at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. Also, he received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry (2017) under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. He is currently working towards his postdoctoral under the supervision of Prof. Mohamm...