Internship Experiences Contribute to Confident Career Decision Making for Doctoral Students in the Life Sciences.

ABSTRACT: The Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration (GSICE) program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers structured training and hands-on experience through internships for a broad range of PhD-level careers. The GSICE program model was successfully replicated at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Here, we present outcome data for a total of 217 PhD students participating in the UCSF and UC Davis programs from 2010 to 2015 and 2014 to 2015, respectively. The internship programs at the two sites demonstrated comparable participation, internship completion rates, and overall outcomes. Using survey, focus group, and individual interview data, we find that the programs provide students with career development skills, while increasing students' confiden

SUBMITTER: Schnoes AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6007763 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature