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FHS Graduate students and Postdoctoral trainees, please note...

Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoc Career Development Workshop.

Aim: To educate and provide tools to trainees to help them to succeed as career academics but also to help transition to other non-academic scientific career streams.

What: empowerment through knowledge and information provided by guest speakers and career/skills development exercises and advice

When: monthly (first Tuesday of each month at 3:00pm)

Who: All Faculty of Health Sciences graduate students and post-docs (and their supervisors too!)

Format: 30 mins guest speaker + 30 mins Q&A – active engagement with the audience

Coordinator: Dr. Sachin Katyal, Asst Prof, Dept. Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Senior Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, CancerCare Manitoba (questions/comments can be directed to sachin.katyal@umanitoba.camailto:sachin.katyal@umanitoba.ca)

Start: The inaugural presentation will be held on Tuesday October 7, 2014 – 3:00-4:00PM, Basic Science Lecture Theatre E

Sachin Katyal will outline the key concepts and goals of the workshop for the coming year

Topics include:

1. Networking, Networking, Networking!!! (ongoing theme)

-collaborating and promoting yourself

-gathering references and developing notoriety

2. Communication skills (writing, public speaking, graphic presentations)

3. Research Skills (expt design, techniques, data/stats analysis, interpretation, peer review, detail-oriented)

4. Business Management skills (leadership, professionalism, project management, time management, team play)

5. Effective CV building, updating, promotion

6. Ins and outs of publishing

-scientific writing/editing

-revisions

7. Trainee Grantsmanship and Grant workshop

8. Building an IDP (individual development plan) - http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/

-IDP provides a mentor-mentee planning process that identifies both professional development needs and career objectives (both short term and long term)

9. Advancing to a tenure track academic position

-preparing the application

-choosing the right references

-application, site visit and interview processes

-giving an effective scientific presentation

-chalk talks

-negotiating a start-up package

-planning and securing funding

-alternative paths to academic careers

10. Alternative non-academic scientific careers:

-MSL

-Big Pharma

-Patent attorney/agent

-Scientific liason for non-profits

-Finance industry (science/tech analyst)

-Government

-Teaching

-Publishing/Editing

-Medical Communications

-Consulting

-Corporate meets science

-NGO health related

Sachin Katyal, PhD Asst. Professor, University of Manitoba, Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Senior Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, CancerCare Manitoba 675 McDermot Ave, ON5010 Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E0V9

ph: 204-787-2765 Sachin.Katyal@umanitoba.camailto:Sachin.Katyal@umanitoba.ca