Purpose of Measure: Assesses respondents' levels of interest in various post PhD biomedical career paths.
Lay-Person Terms: N/A
Measure:
Rate your interest in the following career paths (as of now):
| 1. Highly uninterested | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. Highly interested | |
| 1. Conduct my own research and lead my own research team in academia (i.e., become a Principal Investigator). | |||||
| 2. Conduct research as a staff scientist in industry, academia, or government. | |||||
| 3. Conduct applied research as an entrepreneur. | |||||
| 4. Support science & research, but not conduct research (e.g., be a teacher, science/research administrator, grants manager, science policy analyst, science reporter, etc.) | |||||
| 5. Pursue a different career outside of science. |
Type of Validity: N/A
Citation of Publication: Publication introducing measure: Gibbs KD Jr, McGready J, Bennett JC, Griffin K (2014) Biomedical Science Ph.D. Career Interest Patterns by Race/Ethnicity and Gender. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114736. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114736 See Supplementary Figure 1 for measure.
Instructions to analyze and interpret: Use items independently to determine interest in each career path. Higher values relate to higher interest. Can also be used on postdoctoral populations. See other citation below.
Other citations: Career Development among American Biomedical Postdocs, Kenneth D. Gibbs, Jr., John McGready, and Kimberly Griffin, CBE—Life Sciences Education 2015 14:4