Hayes Cellas A, Headley Colwyn A, Nava Amy R, Vizcarra Edward A, Garcia Keith C, Mullen McKay M S, Morales Josefina Flores, Venida Anthony C, Follis Shawna
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
GEN Biotechnol. 2024 Aug;3(4):196-206. doi: 10.1089/genbio.2024.0014. Epub 2024 Aug 16.
The dissatisfaction within the postdoctoral training phase has led to the drastic reduction in the number of U.S. citizens pursuing postdoctoral positions within the biological and biomedical sciences fields. Even more so, there is an obvious disparity in not only the recruitment but the retention among underrepresented groups to pursue careers as academic scientists. The proposed social-ecological model and National Institute of Health advisory committee suggests reforming the postdoctoral training phase to overcome these downward trends and disparities. Importantly, some programs like the Stanford Propel Postdoctoral Program were integrating this framework and recommendations without knowledge that they would be released 2 years later. The goal of the Propel Program is to provide social, cohort, financial, and institutional support to diverse cohorts of postdoctoral trainee to diversify the professoriate. Within this piece, several of the Propel scholars come together to provide their perspectives on how the Propel Program has benefited their postdoctoral training experience.
博士后培训阶段的不满情绪导致在美国生物和生物医学科学领域从事博士后职位的美国公民数量大幅减少。更甚的是，在代表性不足的群体中，不仅在招聘方面，而且在留住他们以从事学术科学家职业方面，都存在明显差距。提议的社会生态模型和美国国立卫生研究院咨询委员会建议改革博士后培训阶段，以克服这些下降趋势和差距。重要的是，一些项目，如斯坦福推进博士后项目，在不知道两年后会发布这些框架和建议的情况下，就已经在整合这个框架和建议了。推进项目的目标是为不同群体的博士后学员提供社会、群体、经济和机构支持，以使教授队伍多样化。在这篇文章中，几位推进项目的学者齐聚一堂，分享他们对推进项目如何使他们的博士后培训经历受益的看法。
