An Individual Development Plan, or IDP, is a personalized, structured document that assists with goal setting and facilitating communication between mentors and mentees.
Graduate students in the UC Davis Graduate Group in Plant Biology have developed extremely helpful materials for learning about and producing an IDP, and these are available on the Plantae portal.
Read: Hope is Not a Stragegy – Designing an IDP for a graduate program
Watch: All Aboard the Mentor-ship – Making and Using an Individual Development Plan
Biology Mentorship Committee personal recommendation from Emily Sessa:
I watched this webinar and found it extremely useful; I had never heard of an IDP before, but this kind of document appeals to my desire for organization, and I could see it being really useful for students.