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Programs

The OACD provides a range of programming for a variety of audiences, from standalone webinars on specific topics to ongoing career development programs.

Click the links below to learn more about each program.

Career Development Series
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

The OACD provides an annual series of professional development workshops for doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees. This series focuses upon a range of career development skills, career options, and key transitional steps to help you identify, prepare for, and succeed in landing the next step of your career.

Core Communications Skills for Scientists Workshop
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

Trainees in the health sciences can enhance their academic and professional success by participating in a one-day workshop to develop critical communication skills and earn a digital badge.

Essential Professional Skills Series
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

The OACD provides an annual series of professional development workshops for doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees. This series focuses upon a range of career development topics critical to your professional success and this foundational content applies across all disciplines.

Health Sciences Career Symposium
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

This annual symposium is designed to enhance the professional development of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students by providing you with direct access to PhD professionals who have successfully made the transition to exciting careers covering a range of employment settings and job sectors.

PACT Speaker Series
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

The Career Conversations series allows trainees to observe a Pitt postdoc interviewing a Pitt PhD alumnus in real time to hear about their career trajectory and then to ask your own questions. Learn about current occupations and career paths of our alumni while also mastering how to conduct informational interviews so that you are prepared for the next stage of your career.

PerL Program
Audience: Postdocs, Grad & Med Students

Struggling with career uncertainty? Discover clarity and community through this two-month cohort-based program that helps Pitt trainees understand themselves and their professional options and identify next steps to achive career success.

Research Series
Audience: Faculty, Postdocs, Residents & Clinical Fellows, Grad & Med Students

A series of research-specific workshops are scheduled annually to meet the career development needs of postdoctoral trainees through senior investigators across the health sciences.

Thriving in Medicine & Science Forum
Audience: Faculty, Postdocs, Residents & Clinical Fellows, Grad & Med Students, Administrators

This is a university-wide event to celebrate and highlight the presence and accomplishments of those in medicine and science at the university.