Transferable skills program Thursday on writing

Transferable skills programming

The Office of Graduate Studies is working to develop programs that help students recognize and develop important transferable skills that will prove useful regardless of their chosen career track. Additional attention focuses on helping each student identify his/her primary skillset and the careers that might best be suited to that skillset.
Transferable skills that are developed through the pursuit of biomedical research include the following:

• ability to function as part of a team,
• problem-solving,
• teaching skills,
• use of information and communication technology,
• negotiating skills,
• project management (time, resources & deadlines),
• ability to work across disciplinary boundaries,
• professional maturity,
• ability to communicate (both in writing and verbally) to specialists and non-specialists,
• responsibility for one's work and to society, and
• leadership skills.