title: Faculty recruitment, retention, and success in dental academia.
abstract: Previous reports addressing issues pertaining to faculty recruitment and retention have generally been based on structured surveys of current faculty and the opinions of senior educators. Results from those studies cannot reflect the opinions of the spectrum of persons in academia. Qualitative research, by using in-depth interviews with past, present, and future academics, was conducted to determine as broadly as possible the perceptions of those involved in, or considering, academic careers about the barriers to recruitment, retention, and success or failure in academia. Similarities and differences in the perceptions of groups at different career stages were detected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Carroll-Ann_Trotman@dentistry.unc.edu
authors.forename: Carroll-Ann
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Trotman
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Scheffler
authors.forename: Joan Camilla
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Tulloch
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D018865:Dental Research; D003815:Dentists / Q000523:psychology*; D005179:Faculty, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010560:Personnel Selection; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States