Use and effectiveness of the Individual Development Plan among postdoctoral researchers: findings from a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: The individual development plan (IDP) is a career planning tool that aims to assist PhD trainees in self-assessing skills, exploring career paths, developing short- and long-term career goals, and creating action plans to achieve those goals. The National Institutes of Health and many academic institutions have created policies that mandate completion of the IDP by both graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Despite these policies, little information exists regarding how widely the tool is used and whether it is useful to the career development of PhD trainees. Herein, we present data from a multi-institutional, online survey on the use and effectiveness of the IDP among a group of 183 postdoctoral researchers. The overall IDP completion rate was 54% and 38% of IDP users reported

SUBMITTER: Vanderford NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240468 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature