By writing papers with graduate students and postdocs and using connections to help obtain fellowships and appointments, senior scientists can help their lab workers secure coveted tenure-track jobs.
Success in obtaining fellowships is highly dependent upon the recommendations of faculty.
These criteria could include board passage rate, faculty research, resident presentations and research, aggregate USMLE scores, resident success in obtaining fellowships or positions, and resident satisfaction surveys, inter alia.
Respondent experience suggests that, as in other countries, de-skilling and stalled career progression is a specific feature of doctor migration – specialists can find themselves reduced to novice doctors [ 44], migrant doctors struggle to obtain fellowships and have limited long-term career options [ 45].
Residents seemed especially reluctant to openly express their views for fear of not being able to obtain fellowship positions.
When Ban first started at Yale, he obtained a fellowship from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell fellowship.
(Table 5) The other resident, who obtained a fellowship and did not have GME research, pursued a medical informatics fellowship.
I had obtained a fellowship to Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh.
So he obtained a fellowship to Harvard business school to study the industry of medicine.
In 1948, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and then obtained a fellowship at Columbia in 1949 and 1950.
