Pharm.D. student takes interdisciplinary path to career goals

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Factoring Health Equations; Comment on “Do You Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?”

The International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. The challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...

do you recommend an interdisciplinary field to your graduate student?

Modeling Career Path Trajectories

Understanding the structure and dynamics of the job market is important both from the local perspective of individual job hunters and from the global perspective of economists and policy makers. In this paper, we explore such questions by analyzing the text of a corpus of resumes and their job transitions. We first demonstrate the use of a statistical topic model to discover the latent skills t...

Impact of Professional Student Mentored Research Fellowship on Medical Education and Academic Medicine Career Path.

CONTEXT This study explores the long-term impact of the Professional Student Mentored Research Fellowship (PSMRF) program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UKCOM) on medical students' research productivity and career paths. METHODS Demographic characteristics, academic profiles, number of publications and residency placements from 2007 to 2012 were used to assess 119 PSMRF gr...