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. 2017 Oct 19:6:e32715.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.32715.

The future of graduate and postdoctoral training in the biosciences

Peter Hitchcock  1 , Ambika Mathur  2   3 , Jabbar Bennett  4   5 , Patricia Cameron  6 , Christine Chow  7 , Philip Clifford  8 , Robert Duvoisin  9 , Andrew Feig  2 , Kevin Finneran  10 , Diane M Klotz  11 , Richard McGee  12 , Mary O'Riordan  13 , Christine Pfund  14   15 , Christopher Pickett  16 , Nancy Schwartz  17   18 , Nancy E Street  19   20 , Elizabeth Watkins  21 , Jonathan Wiest  22 , David Engelke  23
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The future of graduate and postdoctoral training in the biosciences

Peter Hitchcock et al. Elife. .

Abstract

This article summarizes the outcomes of the second national conference on the Future of Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Training. Five topics were addressed during the conference: diversity in leadership positions; mentoring; modernizing the curriculum; experiential learning; and the need for better data on trainees. The goal of the conference was to develop a consensus around these five topics and to recommend policies that can be implemented by academic and research institutions and federal funding agencies in the United States.

Keywords: FOBGAPT; careers in science; grad school; mentorship; postdoc; workforce diversity.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests declared.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Working groups at the second national conference on the Future of Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Training.
Delegates at the conference discussed five different topics: diversity in leadership positions; mentoring; modernizing the curriculum; experiential learning; and the need for better data on trainees.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Recommendations from the second national conference on the Future of Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Training.
Each of the five working groups at the conference produced a list of recommendations aimed at academic and research institutions and funding agencies in the United States.
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