Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Talk for PhD students: Rethinking Impostor Syndrome - Why Capable Students Doubt Their Competence and What to Do About It
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3993-25-00-03	There are 496 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 15/10/2025

Date and time	29.10.2025, at: 15:30 - 17:00
Regular seats	500

Contact person	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This Talk is reserved for PhD students at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Rethinking Impostor Syndrome - Why Capable Students Doubt Their Competence and What to Do About It • Do you chalk accomplishments up to luck, timing, or the supposed simplicity of the task? • Do you agonize over even the smallest flaws in your work? • Are you crushed by constructive criticism? • Do you wonder if you’re really “smart enough” to be here? • When you are successful, do you secretly think, “fooled them again”? Millions of people around the world, from new hires to CEOs, first-year students to PhDs, artists and engineers, secretly worry that they’re not as intelligent or capable as everyone “thinks” they are. It’s called impostor syndrome. Fortunately, there is a solution. In this upbeat interactive session, you will: • Understand what impostor syndrome is – and what it is not • Discover the situational, occupational, familial, organizational, and societal reasons why capable students feel like frauds • Understand the core source of impostor syndrome and why it matters • Identify your personal “Competence Type” • Examine how impostor syndrome shows up in the form of a pattern • Recognize the costs of impostor syndrome to individuals and organizations • Receive practical, immediately usable tools to help yourself – or others – to unlearn impostor syndrome by becoming a Humble Realist™ NOTE: You do not need to personally experience impostor feelings to attend. About the speaker • Valerie Young, Ed.D. is a global thought leader on impostor syndrome. In addition to speaking at over 100 universities in the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the UK including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and University of Copenhagen she’s spoken at such diverse organizations as JP Morgan, Google, Pfizer, Boeing, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute. Valerie’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and other prominent publications worldwide. And her award-winning book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women and Men (Random House 2011/2022) has been translated into nine languages. In 2020 she co-founded Impostor Syndrome Institute to help organizations address the avoidable consequences of impostor syndrome. Moderator • Rikke Buhl, is head of the Graduate School at the Faculty of Health and Medical Science. She is professor in large animal cardiology and her research interest is within atrial fibrillation, translational perspectives and animal models. She has been PhD coordinator for many years at the Faculty, and has supervised numerous PhD students, postdocs and master students. Time and date: Tuesday 29 October 2025, 15:30-17:00. Registration: Please register no later than 15 October 2025. Venue: Panum, Blegdamsvej 3B, Maersk Tower, 1st floor, Jerne Auditorium. Organizer: Mia Dabelsteen, mia.dabelsteen@adm.ku.dk, senior consultant, The Graduate School.

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