Decoupling of the minority PhD talent pool and assistant professor hiring in medical school basic science departments in the US.

ABSTRACT: Faculty diversity is a longstanding challenge in the US. However, we lack a quantitative and systemic understanding of how the career transitions into assistant professor positions of PhD scientists from underrepresented minority (URM) and well-represented (WR) racial/ethnic backgrounds compare. Between 1980 and 2013, the number of PhD graduates from URM backgrounds increased by a factor of 9.3, compared with a 2.6-fold increase in the number of PhD graduates from WR groups. However, the number of scientists from URM backgrounds hired as assistant professors in medical school basic science departments was not related to the number of potential candidates (R²=0.12, p>0.07), whereas there was a strong correlation between these two numbers for scientists from WR backgrounds (R

SUBMITTER: Gibbs KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5153246 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature