Skill development in graduate education.
The process of training new PhDs is complex and has significant dropout rates associated with loss of financial and time investments by the student, mentor, and program. One approach to improve graduate education is to make explicit the skills students need to develop and to put in place mechanisms to develop those skills.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. rrparker@email.arizona.edu
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