Seminar Reflection

Seminar Workshop Reflections-by Michael Pulte
Career Development 101
I thought that this seminar was immensely helpful in allowing the fellows to grasp the importance of networking and developing a way to convey the idea of one's amazing self to a potential supporter of future endeavors. In the M-Sci Family Meetings, we talked about the importance of networking and developing an elevator pitch to show people who you are as this information, and the way it is presented may be crucial to one's career development. I never really though of my fellow fellows as sources for networking but they can also be critical in helping me make the most out of my career at U of M and beyond!

Writing Academic Articles and Getting Published
The speaker for this particular seminar workshop was very well informed on writing an academic paper and getting published in respected canons of research material IN HER FIELD. She was very interesting to listen to, was very knowledgeable, and was overall very informative. However, I feel that the entire audience would have benefited better from someone who had published scholarly articles in a more "hard science"-related field. There are a lot of differences between how a literary academic paper is structured and how a scientific paper is presented. Although the two may have similar components, the approach to writing a scientific paper is different along with the process of getting that paper published. Although she was a very eloquent speaker, I would've been able to learn more from someone who published article in scientific magazines such as Science, Nature, or The European Journal of Psychotraumatology. Since this is a Biomedical Fellowship, I think hearing about how to publish a paper in the Biomedical sciences or tips on writing such works would've been more beneficial to the group overall.