Rethinking Our Postdoctoral Training

We decide to become postdoctoral fellows, but forget to remain owners of our careers. Often, we look at the postdoctoral experience as a “rule-of-thumb”, or a path that we must take in order to advance our scientific careers. Why not plan for it and take full advantage of postdoctoral training? Should we become just experts in the lab, or good scientists and professionals in and outside academia also? We need to rethink how we go about our postdoctoral training and open our eyes. Let’s not forget that simply mastering lab science is not the entirety of postdoctoral training.