Action to support early career ecologists

Lack of quantitative training among early-career ecologists: a survey of the problem and potential solutions

Proficiency in mathematics and statistics is essential to modern ecological science, yet few studies have assessed the level of quantitative training received by ecologists. To do so, we conducted an online survey. The 937 respondents were mostly early-career scientists who studied biology as undergraduates. We found a clear self-perceived lack of quantitative training: 75% were not satisfied w...

The Immediate Returns to Early Career Mobility

Obstacles to early career psychiatrists practicing psychotherapy.

Though psychiatric residents are expected to be competent psychotherapists on graduation, further growth in skill and versatility requires continued experience in their ongoing career. Maturity as a psychotherapist is essential because a psychiatrist is the only mental health provider who, as a physician, can assume full responsibility for biopsychosocial patient care and roles as supervisor, c...

Early career psychiatry.

I n this issue’s Early Career Psychiatrists section, we have 3 articles that add to the literature in important clinical areas. First, Smid and colleagues address an area of psychiatry in which more data are needed to assess the impact of trauma. They conducted a systematic review of the literature to assess prevalence rates of delayed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They found that in ca...

Early Career Researchers

The aim of this symposium, the second of the biannual ECR symposium series for 2012, is to provide a forum for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their work to fellow researchers and also to foster collaborations, enhance networking and bring together researchers located at the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP). The AMREP ECRs come from the Central Clinical School, ...