My PhD: Incorporating Student-Centered Assessments into the core of PhD Training

The opportunities and interests of PhD graduates are increasingly broad. Recognizing the growing diversity of career outcomes warrants the need to incorporate career exploration and professional development into PhD training.

UNC Chapel Hill will develop a model to maximize student-centered PhD training with individualized competencies, entitled MyPhD, which can be adopted by any STEM graduate program. MyPhD is expected to seamlessly integrate individualized, translatable skill development (e.g., leadership, communication, management) with traditionally required discipline specific competencies (e.g., scientific knowledge, technical skills, data interpretation).

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