PhD retraining program

Did your graduate program not provide you with useful skills beyond what you needed to write your dissertation? MIT can help! A piece in today's NY Times describes MIT's Career Re-engineering program for scientists and engineers.

There's definitely a need for this kind of training - people's careers and interests often evolve far from their educational background. It will be interesting to see if any other universities follow suit. One benefit: a lot of the ideas could be incorporated into graduate and postdoc programs from the get go.