Student Training
One of the duties of the Student’s Advisory Committee is to identify any training needs, including generic skills training, and subject and project specific training which the individual student requires.
Coursework related to the project may also be recommended by the students’ Advisory Committee. Such courses, which are offered at the Stowers Institute or at associated universities, include but are not limited to topics in computer software training, bioinformatics, “state of the art” technologies, literature reviews (journal clubs) etc.
The student must actively participate in the training program of the Stowers Institute, including an ethics course, verbal and written skills required for scientists, safety training, animal care and use training (if appropriate), human subjects training (if appropriate), as well as any courses and workshops that are recommended by the supervisors and/or Student’s Advisory Committee.
In summary, students
- must initiate and continually update their skills assessment and development log as outlined in SMT895 course materials.
- are encouraged to attend the Crossroad professional development series.
- must attend the research integrity course offered biannually at SIMR.
- attend the institute’s Friday Science club and Stowers Wednesday Seminar
- are expected to present to the Science club annually (the first must be prior to the 11th month of registration, in fulfilment of the Probationary Review process)
- with supervisor’s guidance, are expected to consider attending some of the other weekly seminars and workshops available at the institute and at affiliated research establishments. See http://www.stowers-institute.org/BioLog/BioLog.asp for a current listing.
- must participate in lab meetings
