MD Citing Poster Presentation on CV

[nothisispatrick]

I was named an author in a poster presentation that was presented on "Cardiovascular Research Day". This research day was within the medical school itself. I did not present this poster, but it won the research day conference. However, my main concern is that there is no online documentation of this project. I have a copy of the poster saved, but it without contacting the other authors or me, someone reading my CV would not be able to verify that this poster ever existed.

According to this:

ANYTHING LISTED ON YOUR CV or in ERAS should be able to be verified. This may be through internet searches, literature searches, etc

I am wondering if I should and how I would go about citing this poster on my CV. I would really like to list this if I could. My current attempt is:

Poster Presentation and Winner of the Medical School X Cardiovascular Research Day Conference Clinical Poster Competition
Title of Poster. Author 1, Author 2, Author 3, Author 4, Author 5, NothisisPatrick, et. al. Presented by Author 1 at Medical School X Cardiovascular Research Day, Month Year.

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[GoSpursGo]

So the question of whether you can list a poster if you're not the presenting author has been asked and answered a million times, with differing opinions. Personally, I have always come down on the side that if you contributed to a project that was worthy of being presented as a poster, you should be able to take some amount of credit for that on your CV.

THAT SAID... 5th author at a med school research day (which literally exist only to allow students to inflate their CVs with "posters," as opposed to regional or national meetings where there is some level of review before a poster is accepted) is scraping the very bottom of the barrel in terms of what's worth listing, regardless of whether it won something. At the undergrad level it's probably fine, but since this clearly wasn't a project that you had significant ownership of I wouldn't expect that this will greatly elevate your application beyond the research experience that you're already listing. If anyone asks you to verify the existence of the poster you can just provide the copy you have.

If you decide to list it, the format is:
1st author*, 2nd author, 3rd author, 4th author, nothisispatrick, etc (list all of them, not et al). Title. Medical School X Cardiovascular Research Day. City, State. Date.
*Presenting author. First place, clinical poster category

 

[Lawpy]

So the question of whether you can list a poster if you're not the presenting author has been asked and answered a million times, with differing opinions. Personally, I have always come down on the side that if you contributed to a project that was worthy of being presented as a poster, you should be able to take some amount of credit for that on your CV.

THAT SAID... 5th author at a med school research day (which literally exist only to allow students to inflate their CVs with "posters," as opposed to regional or national meetings where there is some level of review before a poster is accepted) is scraping the very bottom of the barrel in terms of what's worth listing, regardless of whether it won something. At the undergrad level it's probably fine, but since this clearly wasn't a project that you had significant ownership of I wouldn't expect that this will greatly elevate your application beyond the research experience that you're already listing. If anyone asks you to verify the existence of the poster you can just provide the copy you have.

If you decide to list it, the format is:
1st author*, 2nd author, 3rd author, 4th author, nothisispatrick, etc (list all of them, not et al). Title. Medical School X Cardiovascular Research Day. City, State. Date.
*Presenting author. First place, clinical poster category

Is listing just national/regional meetings and peer reviewed journal articles a good idea since everything went through peer review?

 

[GoSpursGo]

Is listing just national/regional meetings and peer reviewed journal articles a good idea since everything went through peer review?

Everyone has to make their own decisions on that. Clearly those conferences are more meaningful, and if you have those kinds of presentations then listing these smaller ones may hide the more high-impact ones.

But if you don't have those kinds of presentations there is something to be said for being able to synthesize your research into a coherent story and presenting it as a poster, even in a small setting. Better than saying you played with some pipettes for 6 months but couldn't even tell a story about it. The fact that the OP clearly didn't do the synthesizing here makes me question whether it's really even worth carrying forward on his/her CV, but that's their decision to make.

 

[Dr G Oogle]

There’s nothing wrong with it but you won’t get much mileage out of it. It’s little better than saying you got first place at your high schools science fair