Career Workshop
“Career Planning for Doctoral Candidates in Health Sciences”
Course Description
The majority of people with a PhD does not stay in academia, but pursues careers in a variety of fields. There are many different career paths open to young scientists. However, it is often difficult for them to decide which path to take, or there is a lack of clarity about the requirements for a particular path. Young scientists often start their career planning by looking at job advertisements. But career planning is much more than that!
Participants examine their goals, values, and interests, analyze their skills, and discover interesting career options within and outside of academia. They learn how to explore career options and expand their professional network. At the end of the course, participants create their own career development plan.
Learning Objectives
After this course, participants
- Have a better understanding of their life and career goals
- Have analyzed their skills and competencies
- Are aware of career options within and outside academia
- Have designed their individual career development plan
- Know how to actively engage in career planning
Lecturer
Dr. Iris Köhler is a certified career coach, trainer and experienced scientist. She studied agricultural sciences at the Technical University of Munich and received her doctorate there in 2013. After a postdoctoral stay in the USA and working as coordinator of the graduate school at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, she founded her own company “The Scientist Coach” in 2019. She knows the challenges that young scientists face in career planning and enjoys helping them to develop their own career path – inside or outside academia. Iris has conducted over 100 courses with over 1400 participants and over 300 individual consultations/coaching sessions.
Participants
University of Basel PhD students of the Faculty of Medicine and of Swiss TPH.
Preference is given to those registered to PPHS
Students have not participated in another PPHS career workshop.
Group size: maximum 12 participants
Workload & credits
30h course work (Zoom sessions and self-study)
Individual online coaching session (1 hr)
1 ECTS
The setup of the course requires 100% attendance. PPHS will charge a fee of CHF 50 in case of cancellation later than 2 weeks before the course starts, or if you don’t attend the course.
