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FastTrack, a strategy to shorten time to degree

Recent reports express concern about the sustainability of the biomedical research enterprise in its current form. Recurring concerns include the predictability and sustainability of funding for research, regulatory burden and training the next generation in the biomedical workforce. One specific co...

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Autores principales: Schaller, Michael D., Barbier, Mariette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8255847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34258517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fba.2020-00144
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description Recent reports express concern about the sustainability of the biomedical research enterprise in its current form. Recurring concerns include the predictability and sustainability of funding for research, regulatory burden and training the next generation in the biomedical workforce. One specific concern is the duration of training periods during pre‐doctoral and post‐doctoral studies. This article addresses the issue of time‐to‐degree (TTD) for doctorates. Many reports stress the importance of shortening the TTD, but provide no recommendations to achieve this goal. Herein, factors potentially affecting TTD are discussed and one mechanism that harmonizes undergraduate and graduate programs is proposed as a strategy to reduce the TTD.
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spelling pubmed-82558472021-07-12 FastTrack, a strategy to shorten time to degree Schaller, Michael D. Barbier, Mariette FASEB Bioadv Perspectives Recent reports express concern about the sustainability of the biomedical research enterprise in its current form. Recurring concerns include the predictability and sustainability of funding for research, regulatory burden and training the next generation in the biomedical workforce. One specific concern is the duration of training periods during pre‐doctoral and post‐doctoral studies. This article addresses the issue of time‐to‐degree (TTD) for doctorates. Many reports stress the importance of shortening the TTD, but provide no recommendations to achieve this goal. Herein, factors potentially affecting TTD are discussed and one mechanism that harmonizes undergraduate and graduate programs is proposed as a strategy to reduce the TTD. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8255847/ /pubmed/34258517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fba.2020-00144 Text en © 2021 The Authors. FASEB BioAdvances published by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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