Career development – Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

QBS Students have access to many career development resources though the Center for Professional Development (CPD), Guarini, and Tuck. Review links to reference material on this page before seeking guidance from a career development professional listed below.

PhD students: Mentors and Kerry Landers
Second year MS students: Chandlee Bryan and Susan Diesel
First year MS students: Chandlee Bryan and Susan Diesel

All QBS students have access to the Handshake portal and resources at CPD.

Center for Professional Development

General information
Handshake is a one stop portal for resources including workshop sign-ups, internships and full-time job listings, on-campus recruiting information and employer research.

For best results, complete your Handshake profile to receive search results customized to your interests.

Geisel School of Medicine

Career development

Guarini School of Advanced and Graduate Studies

General information about career services

Thayer School of Engineering

QBS students are not eligible for assistance through Thayer Career Services, but they can review the online reference material.

International students

Visa and employment information fo F-1 visa holders
International QBS students are eligible for non-Dartmouth internships through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) when enrolled in QBS 185 QBS Masters Capstone Experience.
CPD resources for international students

Employment for MS students

QBS faculty are great resources for securing part-time employment. Please be sure to indicate your student status, your background, and interests when emailing faculty. Include your resume/CV.
Review listings at the Student Employment Office.
Students at Dartmouth on the F-1 visa may work a maximum of 20 hours per week when classes are in session and full time when classes are not in session. The employer must be Dartmouth College. It may not be Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
US citizens and permanent residents do not have employment limitations.

The Dartmouth QBS community is at the forefront of creating solutions to previously unsolved problems. They exhibit academic excellence and tenacity, innovating across disciplines to develop the most effective outcomes. Read more below about events and people in the QBS community.

QBS PhD Candidate Ze Zhang, has been awarded a 2022 Neukom Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computational Science. Ze is a member of the Salas Lab working with his mentor Lucas Salas, MD, PhD, MPH on his innovative tumor cell project. Read more here

Britt Goods, PhD, an assistant professor of engineering and QBS faculty member, participated in a new analysis which shows how milk-producing cells change over time in nursing mothers while a post-doc at MIT.
Read more here

Dartmouth Study Reveals Flaws in Statistical Modeling Approach Used in Health Services Research
Findings from a new study conducted jointly at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and published in Health Services Research, highlight the statistical drawbacks of one form of analysis commonly used in health services research while demonstrating the benefits of another. Read more here

QBS MD-PhD students doing great things! QBS student MD-PhD students Yasmin Kamal MD-PhD '22 and Marek Svoboda, MD-PhD ' 24 are lead authors on the paper: “Science Scholars Curriculum: Integrating Scientific Research into Undergraduate Medical Education through a Comprehensive Student-Led Preclinical Elective,” published in MedEdPORTAL. Together, Kamal and Svoboda worked to help create a unique curriculum in the Geisel Medical School to expose future physicians to scientific research who are interested in becoming physician-scientists. Read more here