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The first stand-alone postdoctoral researcher union was UAW Local 5810 at the University of California system. [1] As of 2010 it represented about 6,400 postdoctoral researchers, [2] which was estimated to be about 10% of the United States total, [5] and is the largest postdoctoral researcher union in North America. [6]
It is used to stratify responsibility in most training programs and to determine salary. The grade of a resident or fellow is denoted with an Arabic or Roman numeral after the PGY designation, such as PGY-3 for a third-year resident in any specialty. [citation needed] The length of residency depends on the field a graduate chooses to take.
The contract [17] was ratified on August 11, 2010 with 96 percent of the vote, [18] and made significant advances in pay, health benefits and safety on the job for postdocs. [4] Postdoc negotiators were successful in linking minimum salaries to an experience-based scale set by the NIH for NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowships. [19]
One estimate claims that a 10% increase in the supply of foreign postdoctoral researchers lower the position salary by 3 to 4%. [ 31 ] In the US, life sciences have a greater share than other fields due to higher federal funding of life and medical science areas since the mid 1990s. [ 32 ]
In 2016, two UC Irvine Health specialties were included among the top 50 nationally: 40th for orthopedics [7] and 41st for ear, nose, and throat. [8] It has the county's only Level I trauma center and its sole multiple-organ transplant center, and is the only hospital in the area offering a number of specialized surgeries.
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States.One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2024. [6]
These four measures were combined using principal component analysis to create two indices of research activity, one representing an aggregate level of research activity and the other representing per-capita research activity. Institutions that were high on both indices were classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research ...
However, it is the level rather than the title that determines the equivalent academic rank. With Commonwealth Scientific & Industry Research Organisation , levels for Research Scientists and Research Engineers are as follows: [15] Level 4 (Postdoctoral Fellow), equivalent to academic level A or postdoctoral researcher;