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Job Market Context

Congratulations!  You are, or are soon to be, the holder of a prestigious and valuable graduate degree.   With diligence and creativity, your hard work will give you many options in the workplace.  The market for academic posts and clinical jobs has changed over time.  Read the articles below for a greater understanding of the structure of the current market for jobs in these fields.  Or click on the Bookstore for further recommended reading.  When you are ready for some excitement, visit the New Career Paths page to see all of the ways you can use a PhD or MD to go in a new direction.

 
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Articles
1. Feature: How and Why Government Universities and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers by Eric Weinstein
2. Slaves to science by William Speed Weed
3. The inside track from academia and industry: Follow the money by Michael Alvarez, MA
4. Feature: Do we need more scientists? by Michael S. Teitelbaum
5. Feature: The Big Crunch by David Goodstein
6. Feature: Physician Workforce Policy Guidelines for the United States, 2000-2020 by The Council on Graduate Medical Education
7. Malthus and Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks of Ph.D.'s by Jesse H Ausubel
8. Time for a change by Michael Alvarez, MA
9. Reforming Graduate Education in the Sciences by Congressman George E. Brown, Jr.
10. Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists by Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel
11. Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry: Why So Few? by Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel
12. Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Poli...
13. Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists by Commission on Life Sciences
14. Docs want to fight HMOs, but troops are hard to rally by Chris Rauber
15. Unlocking Our Future: Toward a New National Science Policy by The House Committee on Science
16. Perpetual Postdocs by Chris Woolston
17. Is There Life After Surgery? by Stephen Rosen, PhD
18. A Question of Supply and Demand by Michael Alvarez, MA
 

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