Individual Development Plan (IDP)

IDPs provide a planning process that identifies both professional development needs and career objectives, and serve as a communication tool between faculty advisors and graduate students/postdocs.  An IDP template is provided below.  Graduate students and postdocs should update their IDPs annually in consultation with their faculty mentor(s).  Each graduate student will meet with the Graduate Chair annually to review their IDPs, usually during the summer.

 

Student name:	Date:
Your JABSOM Status (Graduate Student or Postdoc):
Program or Department:
Faculty Advisor/Mentor:

 

Part I – Progress Review: Research and Professional Training in Past Year              

Give a brief overview of your research project and major accomplishments in the past year (insert in box below). Please include the following:

1. Courses completed,
2. Departmental examinations completed (diagnostic exam, qualifying exam, comprehensive exam),
3. Seminars presented (departmental seminar, research proposal seminar, research progress seminar, invited seminars, etc.),
4. Publications in preparation, submitted or accepted,
5. Honors/Awards (fellowships with funding periods, grants written/applied for/received, professional society presentation awards/travel awards, etc.),
6. National or other professional meetings attended (meeting & presentation title, date, location, oral or poster presentation),
7. Mentored activities (grantwriting, laboratory management, communication skills, career planning, other professional development),
8. New areas of research or technical expertise acquired in past year,
9. Teaching, mentoring activity (where the student has served as the mentor, eg. undergraduate, graduate student, staff mentoring)
10. Committee or other service activity
11. Other professional activities not identified above
12. Other activities (community service and engagement, etc.) of professional relevance

 

Part II – Plans for Next Academic Year                                                                                  

What are your immediate research and training plans, and career goals? (insert in box below) Please address the following:

1. Research project goals (brief paragraph)
2. Anticipated publications (indicate projected titles)
3. Anticipated meeting or workshop participation
4. Fellowship or other funding applications planned (indicate name of award, funding source)
5. Other professional training (course work, teaching activity, departmental examinations, technical workshops, mentoring training)
6. Career development goals for next academic year

 

Part III – Self-Assessment      

Skills Assessment

Strengths:

Needs, Opportunities for Growth:

 

Short-Term Goals

Research Goals:

Career Development Goals:

 

Short-Term Career Plans and Necessary Tools to Meet These

What goals would you like to meet?

What skills need to be learned?

How are you going to do this? (List any desired courses, training or assignments)

When are you going to do this? (List course or training dates and assignments)

Long-Term Goals

Research Goals:

Long-Term Career Goals and Necessary Tools to Meet These

What goals would you like to meet?

What skills need to be learned?

How are you going to do this? (List any desired courses, training or assignments, other resources needed)

When are you going to do this? (List course or training dates and assignments)

 

Please check below that you have you have reviewed this statement and that you have discussed this with your advisor.

 

     ☐ Yes, I have reviewed this statement.

     ☐  I have discussed my IDP and plans with my mentor.

 

     

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Student Signature, Date

 

     

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Mentor Signature, Date