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  • Designing Your Career
    This post condenses a talk by Mark Denison, MD, at a Vanderbilt Translational Bridge meeting. For many trainees, and occasionally even the senior faculty who mentor them, career development is a black box: You put in papers, grants, teaching, research, and other career-hel...
  • Three essential steps to win a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
    Have a very powerful opening that matches your single message (powerful) slide You face one of three situations. One - you are the first speaker and the audience is just settling in. They are unused to listening to very short talks, so they won’t pay adequate attentio...
  • Think You’re an Imposter? Here’s How to Know for Sure
    In my work as a consultant helping young scholars navigate the demands of academic life, one of the most common fears expressed by my clients is that they don’t belong. For them, every paper submitted or experiment conducted carries not only the stress of the task but also the ...
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