As an advisor to the President, what is being done or do you think will be done to increase the attractiveness of students finishing PhD programs in science? There seems to be a lot of foreign trained scientists filling these roles as US students find the path discouraging for a variety of reasons.
I say this because I did research all through undergrad and post grad. I absolutely loved it, yet, at the cost to benefit ratio of doing a PhD vs a MD made becoming a physician a no brainer. A lot of my colleagues and acquaintances fear that earning a PhD in science is often not commensurate with the subsequent opportunities, and there seems to be little incentive to resolve this gap.
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As an advisor to the President, what is being done or do you think will be done to increase the attractiveness of students finishing PhD programs in science? There seems to be a lot of foreign trained scientists filling these roles as US students find the path discouraging for a variety of reasons.
I say this because I did research all through undergrad and post grad. I absolutely loved it, yet, at the cost to benefit ratio of doing a PhD vs a MD made becoming a physician a no brainer. A lot of my colleagues and acquaintances fear that earning a PhD in science is often not commensurate with the subsequent opportunities, and there seems to be little incentive to resolve this gap.
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