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Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars
UCSF postdoc career outcomes organized by sector of the workforce, and by career-type, for (A) PhD-trained postdoc alumni employed in the US (n = 899), (B) MD/PhD-trained postdoc alumni employed in the US (n = 141), (C) PhD-trained postdoc alumni employed outside the US (n = 329), and (D) MD/PhD-trained postdoc alumni employed outside the US (n = 62).
source: Silva EA, Des Jarlais C, Lindstaedt B, Rotman E, Watkins ES (2017) Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action. PLOS Biology 15(2): e1002600https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002458.g001
Trends in Biomedical Research
Tools to visualize employment trends in biomedical science: A popular published study by Collins et al analyzed trends of both domestic and international postdocs to evaluate the kind of jobs they landed after their training. Results revealed that "In an almost 2-to-1 ratio, international postdocs were going into academic positions to do basic research", whrereas "Postdocs in the U.S. tended to enter for-profit companies to do applied research"
source: Xu H, Gilliam RST, Peddada SD, Buchold GM, Collins TRL. 2018. Visualizing detailed postdoctoral employment trends using a new career outcome taxonomy. Nat Biotechnol; doi: 10.1038/nbt.4059 [Online 15 January 2018].