Competency-based assessment for the training of PhD students and early-career scientists

Michael F. Verderame; Victoria H. Freedman; Lisa M. Kozlowski; Wayne T. McCormack

doi:10.7554/eLife.34801

Competency-based assessment for the training of PhD students and early-career scientists

Michael F. Verderame, Victoria H. Freedman, Lisa M. Kozlowski, Wayne T. McCormack

Microbiology & Immunology

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Abstract

The training of PhD students and early-career scientists is largely an apprenticeship in which the trainee associates with an expert to become an independent scientist. But when is a PhD student ready to graduate, a postdoctoral scholar ready for an independent position, or an early-career scientist ready for advanced responsibilities? Research training by apprenticeship does not uniformly include a framework to assess if the trainee is equipped with the complex knowledge, skills and attitudes required to be a successful scientist in the 21st century. To address this problem, we propose competency-based assessment throughout the continuum of training to evaluate more objectively the development of PhD students and early-career scientists.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e34801
Journal	eLife
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34801
State	Published - May 31 2018

Keywords

PhD core competencies
PhD training assessment rubric
competency-based PhD training assessment
human biology
medicine
none
observable milestones

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuroscience(all)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Immunology and Microbiology(all)

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