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Educación de Postgrado , Investigadores , Salarios y Beneficios , Canadá , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Investigadores/economía , Investigadores/educación , Salarios y Beneficios/legislación & jurisprudencia , Salarios y Beneficios/estadística & datos numéricos , Salarios y Beneficios/tendenciasAsunto(s)
Educación de Postgrado , Alimentos , Estudiantes , Humanos , Alimentos/economía , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Renta , PobrezaRESUMEN
Despite substantial investment and effort by federal agencies and institutions to improve the diversity of the professoriate, progress is excruciatingly slow. One program that aims to enhance faculty diversity is the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences. IRACDA supports the training of a diverse cohort of postdoctoral scholars who will seek academic research and teaching careers. The San Diego IRACDA program has trained 109 postdoctoral scholars since its inception in 2003; 59% are women and 63% are underrepresented (UR) Black/African-American, Latinx/Mexican-American, and Indigenous scientists. Sixty-four percent obtained tenure-track faculty positions, including a substantial 32% at research-intensive institutions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis threatens to upend IRACDA efforts to improve faculty diversity, and academia is at risk of losing a generation of diverse, talented scholars. Here, a group of San Diego IRACDA postdoctoral scholars reflects on these issues and discusses recommendations to enhance the retention of UR scientists to avoid a "lost generation" of promising UR faculty scholars.
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COVID-19 , Diversidad Cultural , Educación de Postgrado , Docentes Médicos/estadística & datos numéricos , Becas/estadística & datos numéricos , Pandemias , SARS-CoV-2 , Universidades/estadística & datos numéricos , California , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Etnicidad/estadística & datos numéricos , Docentes Médicos/economía , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Grupos Minoritarios/estadística & datos numéricos , National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) , National Institutes of Health (U.S.) , Investigadores/economía , Investigadores/educación , Investigadores/estadística & datos numéricos , Salarios y Beneficios/estadística & datos numéricos , Estados Unidos , Universidades/economía , Mujeres/educaciónRESUMEN
ISSUE: As the healthcare landscape rapidly changes, graduate allied health programs must position themselves to educate the next generation of healthcare professionals in a highly competitive landscape. No studies have directly measured the relative importance of attributes in program selection by prospective healthcare students. METHODS: We surveyed graduate healthcare management program applicants in the 2018 admissions cycle (n=512) to determine which attributes were most important in program choice. We utilized conjoint analysis to estimate utilities and importance scores of six attributes: program ranking, cost, work experience, geography, distance to home, and salary. We then conducted a market simulation to predict relative market share of academic programs. OUTCOMES: The most important attribute to prospective students was the projected starting salary, with US News and World Report ranking and tuition cost the second and third most important attributes, respectively. Each attribute was relatively inelastic respective to tuition cost. CONCLUSION: While future leaders placed the most value on earnings when selecting a program, they also valued rankings and cost. By focusing on these factors, programs can target their marketing efforts to recruit the best potential future healthcare leaders, while this method can be replicated to gauge the most important relative attributes for a variety of healthcare professions.
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Comportamiento del Consumidor , Educación de Postgrado/organización & administración , Administradores de Instituciones de Salud/educación , Estudiantes/psicología , Adulto , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Educación de Postgrado/normas , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Salarios y Beneficios , Adulto JovenAsunto(s)
Presupuestos , Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , Neumonía Viral/epidemiología , Apoyo a la Investigación como Asunto , Investigación/economía , COVID-19 , Infecciones por Coronavirus/economía , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Humanos , Pandemias/economía , Neumonía Viral/economía , Investigadores/economía , Universidades/economíaRESUMEN
As postsecondary tuition and debt levels continue to rise, the value proposition of higher education has been increasingly called into question by the popular media and the general public. Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics now show early career earnings and debt, by program, for thousands of institutions across the United States. This comes at an inflection point for public health education-master's degrees have seen 20 years of growth, but forecasts now call for, at best, stagnation.Forces inside and outside the field of public health are shifting supply and demand for public health master's degrees. We discuss these forces and identify potential monetary and nonmonetary costs and benefits of these degrees.Overall, we found a net benefit in career outcomes associated with a public health master's degree, although it is clear that some other master's degrees likely offer greater lifetime earning potentials or lower lifetime debt associated with degree attainment. We outline the issues academic public health must engage in to successfully attract and train the next generation of public health graduates.
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Educación de Postgrado/economía , Salud Pública/educación , Salarios y Beneficios , Selección de Profesión , Análisis Costo-Beneficio , Empleo , Humanos , Salud Pública/economía , Apoyo a la Formación Profesional , Estados UnidosAsunto(s)
Presupuestos/organización & administración , Gobierno Federal , Becas/economía , Investigadores/economía , Apoyo a la Investigación como Asunto/economía , Apoyo a la Investigación como Asunto/organización & administración , Ciencia/economía , Factores de Edad , Animales , Brasil , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Becas/organización & administración , Estudiantes , Incertidumbre , DesempleoAsunto(s)
Costos y Análisis de Costo , Emigración e Inmigración/estadística & datos numéricos , Empleo/economía , Investigadores/economía , Factores de Edad , Cuenta Bancaria/economía , Presupuestos , Ahorro de Costo , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Docentes , Organización de la Financiación/economía , Investigadores/educación , Factores de TiempoRESUMEN
Sampson et al. discuss the economic and societal value of graduate education, in particular in the USA.
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Educación de Postgrado/economía , Estudiantes/psicología , Política , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: The objective was to guide key stakeholders on future directions of external funding of international postgraduate training (Master's and PhD) of health research students at institutions in sub-Saharan Africa by mapping the numbers and characteristics of students, the location of institutions, and sources of external support. A cross-sectional survey of eligible external funding organizations and programmes was conducted in 2017. Information was gathered from funders' websites or through the assistance of institutional contacts. The information requested included the number of Master's and PhD grantees supported from January 2012 to June 2017, as well as each grantee's institution of study, gender, country of origin and research area. RESULTS: Of 72 organizations contacted, there were 44 responses. Of the 44, 30 funders reported programmes within the inclusion criteria, and 19 funders provided data on relevant programmes. The Wellcome Trust, the International Development Research Centre and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation supported the greatest number of grantees. There was concentrated support for grantees in eastern and southern Africa, countries with developed research capacity, and highly-developed research and training centres. More support was provided for PhD than Master's degree programmes and for research areas more upstream along the research spectrum. Challenges were identified in recognizing relevant funding organizations and obtaining responses. Information was presented inconsistently across organizations, which were often unable to provide relevant and complete data within the survey timeframe. CONCLUSIONS: External funders should collect, analyse and report data at regular intervals on their support for strengthening postgraduate health research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. Standardization of this process and development of an online database would not only help to avoid overlap between programmes and promote synergy between funders, but also inform dialogue between external funders and key stakeholders on strategic issues. These issues include how external funders can a) optimise their support for research capacity strengthening to maximise the benefits of research for health and development on an equitable basis, and b) optimise the distribution of support for researchers at different career stages and for research on different parts of the research spectrum to maximise the health benefits of research.
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Investigación Biomédica/organización & administración , Creación de Capacidad/organización & administración , Educación de Postgrado/economía , Cooperación Internacional , Investigadores/educación , Academias e Institutos , África del Sur del Sahara , Estudios Transversales , HumanosRESUMEN
Se realizó un estudio descriptivo transversal con el propósito de conocer el nivel de conocimiento acerca del costo-beneficio, costo- efectividad, costo-utilidad de la especialidad de Estomatología, en residentes de dicha especialidad en la provincia Guantánamo, durante el primer trimestre del año 2017. El universo quedó constituido por 76 residentes, a los que se les aplicó una encuesta, con el objetivo de obtener un diagnóstico acerca del tema y trazar estrategias de trabajo para eliminar las deficiencias identificadas. Entre los resultados se encontró: mayor el número de residentes femeninas, en el grupo de 23-27 años se concentró el conocimiento superior sobre el tema. Las conclusiones indicaron que en la población estudiada existe desconocimiento acerca del costo y necesidad de capacitarlos(AU)
A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out due to the following problem: What is the knowledge about cost / benefit, cost /effectiveness, cost / utility, of residents of the specialty of General Intensive Stomatology (EGI) in Guantanamo province during the first quarter of 2017? The universe was constituted by 76 residents, who were surveyed, with the objective of obtaining a diagnosis on the subject and drawing up work strategies to eliminate, identified deficiencies. Among the results was found: greater the number of female residents, in the group of (23-27) concentrated the superior knowledge on the subject. The conclusions indicated that in the studied population, there is a lack of knowledge about the cost and the need to train them(AU)