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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the personal and professional characteristics, and the physical, psychiatric/psychological, and professional issues that exist among master's-, doctoral-, and post-doctoral-level health professionals. METHODS: A cross-sectional, online, self-reported survey of 452 postgraduates who completed master's, doctoral, or post-doctoral degrees in one graduate program in pediatrics in São Paulo, Brazil, was conducted. RESULTS: The response rate was 47% (211/453). The majority of participants were women (78%) and physicians (74%), and the median age was 47 years (28-71). Master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral degrees were reported by 73%, 53%, and 3%, respectively. High workload (>40 hours/week) occurred in 59%, and 45% earned ≥15 minimum wages/month. At least one participation in scientific meeting in the past year was reported by 91%, and 79% had published their research. Thirty-nine percent served as a member of a faculty of an institution of higher learning. The data were analyzed by two age groups: participants aged ≤48 years (group 1) and participants aged >48 years (group 2). The median rating of overall satisfaction with the profession in the past year [8 (0-10) vs. 9 (1-10), p=0.0113]; workload >40 hours/week (53% vs. 68%, p=0.034); and ≥15 minimum wages/month (37% vs. 56%, p=0.0083) were significantly lower in group 1. Further analysis by gender revealed that the median rating of overall satisfaction with the profession in the past year [8 (0-10) vs. 9 (3-10), p=0.0015], workload >40 hours/week (53% vs. 83%, p=0.0002), and ≥15 minimum wages/month (37% vs. 74%, p=0.0001) were significantly lower in women compared with men. The median rating of overall satisfaction with the mentorship supervision provided was significantly higher among the women 10 (5-10) vs. 10 (2-10), p=0.0324]. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of master's-, doctoral-, and post-doctoral-level health professionals were women and physicians, and had published their thesis. Younger postgraduates and women reported low salaries, less likelihood of working >40 hours/week, and less overall satisfaction with their profession. Further longitudinal and qualitative studies are warranted to assess career trajectories after graduation.
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Humans , Male , Female , Child , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Pediatrics/education , Physicians , Quality of Life , Brazil , Cross-Sectional Studies , Sex Distribution , Age Distribution , Education, Medical, GraduateABSTRACT
The clinical medical post-doctoral project is an elite post-graduation national project supported by Min-istry of Human Resources and Social Security and Health and Family Planning Commission .It is a new investiga-tion for elite medical education in new era.During the first academic year of launching this project in Peking Union Medical College Hospital ( PUMCH) , the department of internal medicine has continuously modified and developed the implementation of this project, including the setting of courses, teaching process, evaluation and feedback, basing on the feedback collecting from multiple dimensions during the process .These actions have boosted this project to be outstanding on the basis of the regular training program of residents , which has been es-tablished in the internal medicine department of PUMCH , and made it as an elite post-graduation medical educa-tion project.The process and experience of this project could provide reference for the implementation of similar projects in other teaching hospitals .
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This study explored the current problems regarding post-doctoral scientific research station including rigid system,low fund coverage,uncooperative team,lack of innovation and independent research capacities etc.To address above-mentioned problems,the assessment process of admission to the research station should be defined,multidisciplinary academic exchanges enhanced,evaluation and incentive mechanism developed,reasonable restraint mechanism for supervisors established,and self-management of the students carried out and practical funding projects supplemented,thus cultivating a team of high-level medical talents to lead the disciplinary development.
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Interdisciplinary research is one of the focus of sci-entific method discussion .In recent years a large number of interdiscipli-nary methods or engaged in interdisciplinary research and collaboration between scientists have won the Nobel prize , once again proved this point.Its profound, interdisciplinary research in the field of medicine it-self also embodies a new paradigm of modern medical science and explo-ration the cross disciplinary research applied to medical postdoctoral training work, aims to cultivate a group of clinicians is an excellent ex-perimental research and know the innovative medical amphibious expert.With the development of modern medicine and the current actual situation , the development of a single subject is far from enough .This article from the interdisciplinary talents cultivation idea or-igin, development of surgery and anatomy , informatics, imaging, such as the development of other disciplines and the close connection between the hot research in twenty-first century To expound the progress of medicine , the need for mutual cooperation between families , and by their respective areas of strengths together to carry out interdisciplinary research .