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The motivation for studying career satisfaction is, in part, the perception that higher satisfaction should be associated with greater productivity. Thus, if the determinants of career satisfaction are understood, researchers may be able to contribute to creating conditions or models that enhance productivity for a multitude of industries including academia. By example, managers concerned with maximizing the impact of their research and development teams are specifically interested in findings revealed by the aforementioned research (Kim and Oh 2002).

The opportunity to perform research remains the most important predictor for a successful academic career. At the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), The Research on Careers Workgroup, a development program, created a comprehensive theoretical model to address career success. The Workgroup's model, and consecutive submodels, would allow for the evaluation of personal factors (e.g. demographics, education, and the psychosocial milieu), organizational factors (e.g. financial resources, infrastructure, training, and mentoring), and the interplay between factors that contribute to career success. The authors have suggested that with this model, leaders of training programs could identify potential physician‐scientists and provide early opportunities for intervention – thus ensuring career success. The authors concluded that their model may serve as a highly flexible template for concise and testable analytic models used to develop a positive career trajectory for aspiring physician‐scientists (Rubio et al. 2011). However, demonstrating how these theoretical associations may apply to important questions related to career success is limited in scope.