Good Opportunity for a Postdoc - Anonymous employee NIH Employee Review

4.0
25 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

NIH offers some of the best resources available and allows one to focus on the research. The salary for a postdoc is very good.

Cons

Job prospects for postdocs in general, not just at NIH, are not good. Cost of living in the area and traffic are tough. Bureaucracy is high

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Pros

Not stressful, science based, not profit.

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Working with the some of the smartest scientists and clinicians in the world. So many learning opportunities. Kind patients. Allowed time to care for patients as there is no pressure of quotas by health insurance.

Cons

Nursing management can be verbally abusive with frequent retaliation and intimidation. As most older nurses have worked there for most of their career, they are dismissive of new perspectives and resistant to evidence-based practice.

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