title: Yearly planning meetings: individualized development plans aren't just more paperwork.
abstract: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages trainees to make Individualized Development Plans to help them prepare for academic and nonacademic careers. We describe our approach to building an Individualized Development Plan, the reasons we find them useful and empowering for both PIs and trainees, and resources to help other labs implement them constructively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Ben J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Vincent
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Clarissa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scholes
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Max V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Staller
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Zeba
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wunderlich
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Estrada
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Jeehae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Meghan D J
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Bragdon
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Francheska
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lopez Rivera
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Kelly M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Biette
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: angela_depace@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Angela H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: DePace
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D010559:Personnel Management; D014481:United States