American Association for Cancer Research, Washington, DC 20005 Medical Scientist Training Program and Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294.
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2014 Spring;13(1):49-53. doi: 10.1187/cbe-13-04-0085.
Individual development plans (IDPs) have been promoted nationally as a tool to help research trainees explore career opportunities and set career goals. Despite the interest in IDPs from a policy perspective, there is little information about how they have been used. The authors examined IDP awareness and use, the benefits of creating an IDP, and ways to facilitate its use by administering a survey to current or former postdoctoral researchers via the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) and University of Alabama at Birmingham email lists; individuals belonging to Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology member societies who mentored postdocs; and postdoctoral administrators at member institutions of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the NPA. Although most postdoctoral administrators (>80%) were familiar with IDPs, less than 50% of postdocs and only 20% of mentors were aware of IDPs. For those postdocs and mentors who reported creating an IDP, the process helped postdocs to identify the skills and abilities necessary for career success and facilitated communication between postdocs and their mentors. Despite the fact that creating an IDP benefits postdocs and mentors, IDP use will likely remain low unless institutions and research mentors encourage trainees to engage in this process.
个人发展计划 (IDP) 已在全国范围内推广，作为帮助研究受训者探索职业机会和设定职业目标的工具。尽管从政策角度对 IDP 很感兴趣，但关于它们的使用方式却知之甚少。作者通过向全国博士后协会 (NPA) 和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的电子邮件列表中的现任或前任博士后研究人员、指导过博士后的美国实验生物学联合会成员协会的个人以及美国医师学院协会和 NPA 的成员机构的博士后管理人员进行调查，研究了 IDP 的认知度和使用情况、创建 IDP 的好处以及促进其使用的方法。尽管大多数博士后管理人员 (80%以上) 熟悉 IDP，但只有不到 50%的博士后和 20%的导师知道 IDP。对于那些报告创建了 IDP 的博士后和导师来说，该过程有助于博士后确定职业成功所需的技能和能力，并促进了博士后和导师之间的沟通。尽管创建 IDP 对博士后和导师有益，但除非机构和研究导师鼓励受训者参与这一过程，否则 IDP 的使用可能仍然很低。
