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. 2022 Dec 7;7(1):e7.
doi: 10.1017/cts.2022.511. eCollection 2023.

Continued impact of COVID-19 pandemic on clinical and translational science early-career researchers

Colleen Mayowski  1 , Emma A Meagher  2 , Andrew D Althouse  3 , Cecilia Patino-Sutton  4 , Maya S Thakar  1 , Julie L Welch  5 , Doris M Rubio  1 , Gretchen E White  1
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Continued impact of COVID-19 pandemic on clinical and translational science early-career researchers

Colleen Mayowski et al. J Clin Transl Sci. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate impact on the lives and work of early-career researchers. We leveraged a cluster-randomized trial and compared survey data collected over two timepoints to explore whether these impacts persisted. Although more than a year had passed, 74% of participants reported that their research was affected in multiple ways in both 2020 and 2021. These data suggest that the effects of the pandemic on early-career researchers may be prolonged. Our findings additionally serve as an impetus to identify and implement solutions to early-career challenges that undoubtedly existed before the pandemic, but which COVID-19 brought into the spotlight.

Keywords: COVID-19; career development.

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