Open AccessPersonal Journeys, Professional Paths: Persistence in Navigating the Crossroads of a Research Career
Author(s) -
Spero M. Manson
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.133603
Subject(s) - persistence (discontinuity) , generalizability theory , consistency (knowledge bases) , psychology , medical education , career development , graduate students , professional development , internal consistency , association (psychology) , medicine , pedagogy , computer science , developmental psychology , psychometrics , artificial intelligence , geotechnical engineering , engineering , psychotherapist
Persistence in a research career can be readily understood within the trainee models that have emerged from undergraduate and graduate instruction. These models offer a common language for discussing training processes, serve as guides for assessing trainee needs, promise to render training programs that are more comprehensive and attentive than are current programs to the factors that contribute to academic and scientific persistence, and enable us to measure with greater precision, internal consistency, and generalizability the elements that logically belong in research career development programs.