Competency-based assessment for the training of PhD students and early-career scientists.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 29848440.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.34801 and PMC identifier 6002247.
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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 21<sup>st</sup> 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.
Medical subject headings
- Career Choice
- Education, Graduate
- Educational Measurement
- Mental Competency
- Research Personnel
- Students