Postdoctoral mentorship needs a reform.

Trends Mol Med

School of Public Health, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2024

To retain talented scientists in academia, there is a need for structural reform to postdoctoral researcher (postdoc) mentorship. These changes include mentorship training for postdocs and their mentors, formalizing postdoc mentorship networks and postdoc cohorts within a department, and incorporating mentorship development plans (MDPs) in funding decisions for principal investigators (PIs).

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