Understanding Career Success and Its Contributing Factors for Clinical and Translational Investigators.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To understand the factors that facilitate career success for career development awardees in clinical and translational science and reconceptualize understand ing of career success for this population.

Method

In 2013-2014, the authors conducted semistructured interviews with former NIH KL2 or K12 scholars from nine Clinical and Translational Science Award-funded institutions. Participants either had or had not secured independent funding at least two years after the end of their last K award. Questions covered the factors that facilitate or hinder junior investigators' transition to independent funding. Interviews were recorded and transcribed, and the transcripts were analyzed thematically.

Results

Forty individuals participated, with equal representation by m

SUBMITTER: Robinson GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4811729 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature