Yearly planning meetings: individualized development plans aren't just more paperwork

Ben J Vincent; Clarissa Scholes; Max V Staller; Zeba Wunderlich; Javier Estrada; Jeehae Park; Meghan D J Bragdon; Francheska Lopez Rivera; Kelly M Biette; Angela H DePace

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2015.04.025

Yearly planning meetings: individualized development plans aren't just more paperwork

Mol Cell. 2015 Jun 4;58(5):718-21. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.04.025.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 26046646
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.04.025

Abstract

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages trainees to make Individualized Development Plans to help them prepare for academic and nonacademic careers. We describe our approach to building an Individualized Development Plan, the reasons we find them useful and empowering for both PIs and trainees, and resources to help other labs implement them constructively.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / organization & administration*
Goals
Group Processes
Humans
Motivation
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)*
Personnel Management
United States