How perceptions of a successful physician-scientist varies with gender and academic rank: toward defining physician-scientist's success.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Physician-scientists (the physician-scientist workforce) are aging, and there are too few physician-scientists in the pipeline to replace those who retire. Moreover, the pipeline is leaky because some trainees and junior physician-scientists choose other career paths. Significant attention has been directed toward patching the leaking pipeline, thereby increasing the quantity of physician-scientists. Less attention has been devoted to identifying and training more successful physician-scientists, thereby increasing the quality of the pool and making up for the attrition. Though all training programs strive to develop more successful graduates, there is no clear understanding of what constitutes predictors of future success. Identifying characteristics of success would enable tho

SUBMITTER: Gotian R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020365 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature