https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/AM_1270The Study & Career course intends to activate our students to thinking more professionally and in an engaged manner about their study, internships and future careers as biomedical scientists.The students will now put what they learned from the year 1 workshops and assignments into practice by producing their own learning portfolio. For this portfolio, students need to justify, design, carry out, and later reflect on their own self-directed major projects. We organize a "portfolio project inspiration session" early in period 1 to prepare students for designing the major project. The purpose of the major project is to give students the opportunity to build their CV and fill niches in their own professional development and transferrable skill building away from the lab. Students will use input and feedback from their tutor, project mentors, peers, and other experts in the local scientific community to bring their major project ideas to fruition . Topics covered during year 2 workshops include: Pitching an idea successfully, Job market orientation, Job application & CV preparation, Open Science & Data management. As part of this course, our students are encouraged to attend the alumni career event and our student research symposium, where student internship projects can be presented as scientific posters to peers and local academics.Year 2 feedback workshops, self-guided project work with mentors and tutor. Workshops are given in small parallel groups.Submitted homework assignments.Students are obliged to attend workshops and participate actively.A submitted final portfolio.This course will be assessed with a pass/fail.Second year compulsory course for M Biomedical Sciences studentsThe course AM_1258 STUDY AND CAREER YEAR 1 M BMED (0EC) needs to be passed to be able to pass this course.Canvas instructions will follow at the beginning of the academic year. After the course has started, students should sign up for their workshop groups on Canvas, according to their own study timetable. Deadlines for the course will be communicated via the course manual & using CANVAS.