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Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers
BACKGROUND: Prior studies have described the career paths of physician-scientist candidates after graduation, but the factors that influence career choices at the candidate stage remain unclear. Additionally, previous work has focused on MD/PhDs, despite many physician-scientists being MDs. This stu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28697782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0954-8 |
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author | Kwan, Jennifer M. Daye, Dania Schmidt, Mary Lou Conlon, Claudia Morrissey Kim, Hajwa Gaonkar, Bilwaj Payne, Aimee S. Riddle, Megan Madera, Sharline Adami, Alexander J. Winter, Kate Quinn |
author_facet | Kwan, Jennifer M. Daye, Dania Schmidt, Mary Lou Conlon, Claudia Morrissey Kim, Hajwa Gaonkar, Bilwaj Payne, Aimee S. Riddle, Megan Madera, Sharline Adami, Alexander J. Winter, Kate Quinn |
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description | BACKGROUND: Prior studies have described the career paths of physician-scientist candidates after graduation, but the factors that influence career choices at the candidate stage remain unclear. Additionally, previous work has focused on MD/PhDs, despite many physician-scientists being MDs. This study sought to identify career sector intentions, important factors in career selection, and experienced and predicted obstacles to career success that influence the career choices of MD candidates, MD candidates with research-intense career intentions (MD-RI), and MD/PhD candidates. METHODS: A 70-question survey was administered to students at 5 academic medical centers with Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs) and Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from the NIH. Data were analyzed using bivariate or multivariate analyses. RESULTS: More MD/PhD and MD-RI candidates anticipated or had experienced obstacles related to balancing academic and family responsibilities and to balancing clinical, research, and education responsibilities, whereas more MD candidates indicated experienced and predicted obstacles related to loan repayment. MD/PhD candidates expressed higher interest in basic and translational research compared to MD-RI candidates, who indicated more interest in clinical research. Overall, MD-RI candidates displayed a profile distinct from both MD/PhD and MD candidates. CONCLUSIONS: MD/PhD and MD-RI candidates experience obstacles that influence their intentions to pursue academic medical careers from the earliest training stage, obstacles which differ from those of their MD peers. The differences between the aspirations of and challenges facing MD, MD-RI and MD/PhD candidates present opportunities for training programs to target curricula and support services to ensure the career development of successful physician-scientists. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-017-0954-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-55051372017-07-12 Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers Kwan, Jennifer M. Daye, Dania Schmidt, Mary Lou Conlon, Claudia Morrissey Kim, Hajwa Gaonkar, Bilwaj Payne, Aimee S. Riddle, Megan Madera, Sharline Adami, Alexander J. Winter, Kate Quinn BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Prior studies have described the career paths of physician-scientist candidates after graduation, but the factors that influence career choices at the candidate stage remain unclear. Additionally, previous work has focused on MD/PhDs, despite many physician-scientists being MDs. This study sought to identify career sector intentions, important factors in career selection, and experienced and predicted obstacles to career success that influence the career choices of MD candidates, MD candidates with research-intense career intentions (MD-RI), and MD/PhD candidates. METHODS: A 70-question survey was administered to students at 5 academic medical centers with Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs) and Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from the NIH. Data were analyzed using bivariate or multivariate analyses. RESULTS: More MD/PhD and MD-RI candidates anticipated or had experienced obstacles related to balancing academic and family responsibilities and to balancing clinical, research, and education responsibilities, whereas more MD candidates indicated experienced and predicted obstacles related to loan repayment. MD/PhD candidates expressed higher interest in basic and translational research compared to MD-RI candidates, who indicated more interest in clinical research. Overall, MD-RI candidates displayed a profile distinct from both MD/PhD and MD candidates. CONCLUSIONS: MD/PhD and MD-RI candidates experience obstacles that influence their intentions to pursue academic medical careers from the earliest training stage, obstacles which differ from those of their MD peers. The differences between the aspirations of and challenges facing MD, MD-RI and MD/PhD candidates present opportunities for training programs to target curricula and support services to ensure the career development of successful physician-scientists. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-017-0954-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5505137/ /pubmed/28697782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0954-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kwan, Jennifer M. Daye, Dania Schmidt, Mary Lou Conlon, Claudia Morrissey Kim, Hajwa Gaonkar, Bilwaj Payne, Aimee S. Riddle, Megan Madera, Sharline Adami, Alexander J. Winter, Kate Quinn Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title | Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title_full | Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title_fullStr | Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title_short | Exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing MD and MD/PhD interest in research careers |
title_sort | exploring intentions of physician-scientist trainees: factors influencing md and md/phd interest in research careers |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28697782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0954-8 |
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