Tijdink Joeri K
Amsterdam UMC, afd. Ethiek, Recht en Humaniora, Amsterdam.
Contact: Joeri K. Tijdink (
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2020 Oct 5;164:D5490.
This commentary discusses the increase of the number of finished PhD-theses in the Netherlands among young medical doctors. I discuss their motivation, engagement, the lack of mentoring and the mental health symptoms that are highly prevalent among Dutch PhD students in university medical centers. As a consequence, the abovementioned factors may have a detrimental impact on the validity and integrity of research results. Furthermore, I discuss how the current academic hierarchy is shaping academic careers and dictating publication practices. PhD students are pivotal in fulfilling academic dreams of seniors by writing a considerable number of publications that help senior researchers increase their scientific output, advance their careers and help them to get tenured. I suggest that we should invest in sufficient, effective and responsible supervision and mentoring and should train our supervisors to become a responsible role model for their PhD students. For this we need different performance indicators, and more time and skills for seniors to invest in PhD students. As a result, supervisors will become more equipped and engaged in responsible supervision.
本评论探讨了荷兰年轻医生中已完成博士论文数量的增加情况。我讨论了他们的动机、参与度、缺乏指导以及荷兰大学医学中心博士生中普遍存在的心理健康症状。因此，上述因素可能会对研究结果的有效性和完整性产生不利影响。此外，我还讨论了当前的学术等级制度如何塑造学术生涯并规定出版实践。博士生通过撰写大量论文来帮助资深研究人员增加科研产出、推进其职业生涯并帮助他们获得终身教职，从而在实现前辈的学术梦想方面发挥着关键作用。我建议我们应该投入充分、有效且负责的监督和指导，并培训我们的导师成为博士生的负责任榜样。为此，我们需要不同的绩效指标，以及前辈投入更多时间和技能来指导博士生。这样一来，导师将更有能力并更积极地进行负责任的监督。
