
BEST
Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees
Description
Key Features
- Provides an instructional guide for institutions wanting to create or supplement their career and professional development offerings
- Contains perspectives from administrators from the 17 Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) institutions
- Addresses what graduate students and postdoctoral populations can implement now to help broaden career outcomes
Readership
Graduate school deans, faculty, and staff who want to implement and institutionalize career development programing at their institutions; professional societies and their members
Table of Contents
1. BU’s BEST: using biomedical workforce data to inform curriculum and influence
career exploration
2. Cornell BEST-keys to successful institutionalization of career and professional development programming
3. The Atlanta BEST program: a partnership to enhance professional development and career planning across two dissimilar institutions
4. Michigan State University BEST: lessons learned
5. New York University Science Training Enhancement Program
6. Leadership and management for scientists
7. Rutgers University’s interdisciplinary Job Opportunities for Biomedical Scientists (iJOBSs) program: inquire, initiate, implement, instruct
8. The FUTURE partner network: linking graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
to PhD professionals to inform career decisions
9. Keys to successful implementation of a professional development program
10. The motivating informed decisions (MINDs) program - The University of
California San Francisco BEST program for career exploration
11. MyCHOICE: Chicago Options in Career Empowerment
12. Better through BESST!
Inge Wefes
13. Creating the “new normal”: career development embedded into the Ph.D.
curriculum for all trainees
14. The career cohort model: benefits to students, programs, and institutions
15. Vanderbilt’s ASPIRE program: building on a strong career development foundation
to change the Ph.D.-training culture
16. VT-BEST: shaping biomedical professional development programming across colleges and campuses
17. Across disciplines: multi-phase career preparation for doctoral students
Product details
- No. of pages: 282
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: February 3, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128208892
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128207598