Early Career Network

Mission
The mission of the Early Career Network (ECN) is to support, advance, and promote the needs of early career professionals and to prepare them to be future leaders in gynecologic cancer care.

Who can join the ECN?

• Early Career Professionals: An early career professional is a regular IGCS member who is currently in training or within no more than 5 years from graduation of their last training position.

These are the core areas where IGCS focuses its efforts to achieve its mission and deliver value to the future leaders. The priorities include:

• Mentoring: Pairing young professionals with seasoned mentors to provide guidance, career advice, and professional support.
• Education: Developing webinars, workshops, and e-learning modules tailored to early-career professionals' needs and in-person session at the annual meetings.
• Funding: Providing grant and scholarships opportunities to support research and attendance at conferences.
• Strong professional network: Through networking events IGCS fosters collaboration and shared knowledge within the community and helps young professionals build new, valuable relationships.

1. Log in to your IGCS Member Account
2. Click on the Networks tab.
3. Select Early Career Research & Publications Network, and click the Join group button.

Please be sure your graduation year is filled out in your IGCS Member profile as this will determine your eligibility for the group.

If you are not an IGCS Member, Join today!

Join us on WhatsApp
The Early Career Research & Publications Network WhatsApp group allows you to increase your connections with members from around the world. Network members share content, recent studies, information about upcoming events, opportunities within the field of gynecologic oncology. Moderators and other network members can answer any questions you may have in the WhatsApp group as well. The group is moderated by the Early Career Junior Faculty Mentors; however, anyone is welcome to post.

Once you are a member of the Early Career Network, please email rosie.stephans@igcs.org to ask for the link to join.

The volunteer mentors have previous and current experience in career development, mentorship, publishing and scientific presentation. The mentors will communicate regularly with the network to stimulate research ideas, provoke and moderate discussions and connect network members.

Recordings of Early Career Workshops  and presentation slides are available for members in the IGCS Education360 Learning Portal.