Educational Poster Presentation Question

[gandolf]

Hi everyone,

I'm an m2 student at a school in SoCal and I was told by a doctor practicing in the field I'm interested in that I should try to present an educational poster at a conference. I've heard of educational poster presentations at research conferences, but I don't really know what that means. Is there a difference between presenting a poster with research that you have worked on and presenting an educational poster? Isn't the point of every poster to be educational?

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[GoSpursGo]

He almost certainly meant a research poster containing original research, not just an educational poster.

If you're interested in trying research, step 1 is finding a research mentor in the field you're interested in. They can then lead you through the rest of that process.

 

[mvenus929]

Hard to know the exact context based on your post, but there are posters on *educational projects* as opposed to clinical or basic science research. It is a subset of research, not a poster intended to *educate* people about a topic. Though some conferences have poster sessions that are about case reports rather than full projects, intended for trainees to discuss a relatively rare presentation of disease or a rare disease.

The educational projects are typically something like 'we did a needs-assessment and demonstrated that this topic is not currently taught well' or 'we implemented this curriculum and this is how it was received'.

 

[futureapppsy2]

Depending on the conference, this could also just be their wording for student/trainee led posters.