What is an Individual Development Plan (IDP1)?

Wednesday, January 18, 12-1 pm

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are a customized roadmap for your professional training and goals and will enable you to make the most of your doctoral education. The IDP process will prompt you to reflect on your skills and your career aspirations and help you translate those into specific actions and achieve new skills and professional goals. Join us for an interactive workshop that walks you through self-assessments in skills, values, and interests, and sets you up to develop and write a plan to be shared with your PhD mentor. Participation in this workshop partially satisfies the requirements for the PhD Progression Career Workshops badge.

Register for the workshop here.

You can get a PhD Progression badge for attending this workshop and taking the completion survey for the “Individual Development Plan” badge. Use the form below to subscribe to the Level 2 Career Development pathway if you have not already done so:

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  • (Only if not included in above list)
    If you are enrolled in a dual program (e.g., MD/PhD), please select all that apply.
    Level 1 pathways focus on Skill Exploration and are helpful precursors to Level 2 pathways.
    Level 2 pathways focus on Skill Development.
    First-generation Graduate Student is a student whose parents/guardians/caregivers did not earn a master’s, doctorate, or professional degree, such as a JD or MD. (Even if your parents/guardians/caregivers have a bachelor’s degree, but don’t have an advanced degree, you would be considered a first-generation graduate student.)