Earn the Career Development Badge
Advance your career with field-specific skills in 5 key domains.
How do I balance clinical and research ambitions? Get my abstract accepted? Help my patient understand a functional diagnosis?
Learn the skills top experts in the field wish they had when they were starting out.
Gain and demonstrate mastery in key skills to earn the MDS Career Development badge, which you can display on digital profiles or your resume/CV.
Level up through 5 key domains with practical approaches to:
Fundamentals
Gain a next-level understanding of the building blocks of the field.
Master the foundational skills in movement disorders that will be most impactful on your day-to-day practice. You'll cover both the principles and practical applications for a comprehensive understanding of more than a dozen vital skills, including:
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Roopa Rajan
“The course is particularly designed for clinicians and researchers in movement disorders. These are things that have a direct impact on the research that we do.”
Communication
Develop practical methods to interact more effectively.
Refine the skills that will help you convey complex ideas in a concise, understandable way.
Key takeaways include:
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Mentorship
Learn to bring more value to your relationships.
Mentorship can be of the most important aspects of developing your movement disorder career — if you know how to harness it.
Challenge your own perceptions about mentorship by examining the theories behind the mentor-mentee relationship more closely.
You'll even get tools to one day become a successful mentor yourself.
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Veronica Bruno
“Mentorship is one of those relationships we assume we know, but it was not until I received training that I learned about the relationship itself. From that day on, I would say that everything changed.”
Engagement, Collaboration, and Outreach
Build partnerships that can help you achieve your goals.
Understand how to collaborate amongst peers in ways that can advance both your work and your career. Hear from leading experts about the practical approaches they have used to develop and activate their own networks. You will learn to:
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Leadership
Prepare to take on more meaningful responsibilities.
Start developing the tools to take on leadership roles now — then learn how to acquire those opportunities.
Gain a global perspective on inequities and challenges in the field, how to manage a team, and steps you can take now within the Society to set yourself up to become an emerging leader in the field.
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Cynthia Comella
“When I first realized leadership is a skill you can acquire, it was a revelation to me. It has made a huge difference in how I approach what I do, what I say, and how I lead.”
Master practical approaches, led by leaders in the field
Earn the MDS Career Development badge.
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Why this course?
This course covers the skills the foremost leaders in the field wish they had known sooner.
Learn how these skills helped them in their own careers — and how learning them early can shape yours.