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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
Program: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Professionalism 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.

Essential Professional Skills Series
Program: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Professionalism 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.

Faculty Leadership Academy
Program: Faculty Leadership Academy
Audience: Faculty

A year-long professional development program for faculty members that is designed to cultivate a generation of transformative academic leaders through shared leadership training.

PACT Speaker Series
Program: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Professionalism 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.

Postdoctoral Association (UPPDA) Events
Program: Postdoctoral Association (UPPDA)
Audience: Postdocs

The wide variety of events for postdoctoral scholars and associates provides opportunities to investigate career options, develop professional skills, network with colleagues, and celebrate the research accomplishments.

Postdoctoral Data & Dine Symposium
Program: SCIENCE Career Symposium
Audience: Faculty, Postdocs

This annual symposium is a scientific poster session for University of Pittsburgh postdoctoral associates and scholars to present their research to colleagues, faculty, and administrators, while also networking with attendees.

Research Series
Program: 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.

SCIENCE Career Symposium
Program: SCIENCE 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.

SPRINGBOARD
Program: SPRINGBOARD
Audience: Faculty

SPRINGBOARD is a yearlong, required orientation program for new faculty investigators in the schools of the health sciences.

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

This is an annual event to celebrate and highlight the presence and accomplishments of women in medicine and science at the university.