A Postdoc’s Guide to Being a Postdoc

Abstract

If you have recently accepted a postdoctoral position and have begun working as a postdoc, or are planning to pursue a second postdoc, there are many opportunities to improve your skills both within and outside of academics and your specific field of study. The suggestions offered in this paper are not all-inclusive by any means, and are meant to serve as guidelines to show postdocs what they can do, not necessarily what they should do. This is my perspective as a third-year postdoctoral researcher in the medical sciences.