Complicated Poster/Presentation Situation: How to list in AMCAS

[maroonspinstress]

Hi SDN! I've been working on this for a while and can't find an elegant way of listing my poster/platform presentations. I only want to use up 2 experiences for all these, as I already have a separate experience explaining the research internship that resulted in these abstracts.

Overall, I had abstracts accepted at two conferences: some 1st author, some 2nd author, some as platforms, some as posters, and one accepted as a poster at conference X and as a platform at conference Y.

My best attempt is shown below. Even then, I am out of room because my titles were quite long. Questions:

1) Does anyone see a better way of doing this?
2) Is this way of showing authorship appropriate (underlined on SDN for clarity)?
3) Is there any more info that I need to include other than the title and the conference?
4) I read in some other threads that people included the abstract in the description. My abstracts don't fit in 700 characters--is this really necessary?


First Author of Platforms and Posters at X & Y Meetings
First Author: Presenter
- X & Y Platforms: Title
- X Poster & Y Platform: Title
- X Poster: Title

Second Author of Posters at X Meeting
Second Author: Last, F., Spinstress, M., et al.
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title

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[Holmwood]

You can't underline on amcas.

 

[Anthrax]

If you took part in two conferences, you could simply create two entries and title them by the conference name and then under each category, list/discuss what you presented at each conference.

You can't underline on AMCAS. Just clearly state whether you were a first, second, third....seventh author.

Do not put in your abstract. I don't think that's even possible. Just briefly mention what each research project was about, e.g. "I studied the role of protein XYZ in heme biosynthesis" Keep it short, esp. since you have many things to talk about.

Are you simply listing what you presented at each conference in point form or are you going to talk about it in paragraph form?

 

[maroonspinstress]

I know you can't underline in AMCAS...I just did that here on SDN for the purposes of pointing out what lines I was talking about. Sorry if that wasn't clear, I'll reword.

The issue with listing the two conferences separately is that I have two abstracts that were presented at both, and don't want to repeat myself (listing the same title in both conference entries.)

As it stands, I don't have room to discuss what I presented. Just the title of the abstract. I think the titles are plenty self-descriptive, but if it's the norm to add a few sentences about the research I can elaborate. In that case, I'll have to use more than 2 experiences--I can do that if it's important but it seems excessive to have 4+ experiences for posters/presentations. =/

 

[Anthrax]

Well, I don't know if it's the norm. I just wasn't sure if you were going to make a list or write full sentences. I think either option is fine.

Also, if it's your main project that you presented at both conferences then I don't see why you can't list is twice (under both conferences that is).

Why don't you write it out and have someone on SDN read it and see how it looks? Sometimes it helps to put everything down first and then organize it.

 

[Amba]

Why don't you write it out and have someone on SDN read it and see how it looks? Sometimes it helps to put everything down first and then organize it.

OP, if you want someone to look at it actually written out, I am happy to give input.

 

[maroonspinstress]

OP, if you want someone to look at it actually written out, I am happy to give input.

Thanks for all the input! For the purposes of staying at least somewhat anonymous, I'm not comfortable listing my abstract titles. However, what I originally posted (also below) reflects what I've got so far, as entered in AMCAS. My main question is: is there any information missing from these two experience descriptions that I should include?

EXPERIENCE 1
Experience Name: First Author of Platforms and Posters at X & Y Meetings
First Author: Presenter
- X & Y Platforms: Title
- X Poster & Y Platform: Title
- X Poster: Title

EXPERIENCE 2
Experience Name: Second Author of Posters at X Meeting
Second Author: Last-Name, F., Spinstress, M., et al.
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title

 

[maroonspinstress]

Also, if it's your main project that you presented at both conferences then I don't see why you can't list is twice (under both conferences that is).

That's a good thought, but here's why I decided not to do that (let me know if you see a way around this): Of my 6 abstracts, all 6 were accepted at Conference X (the national conference). Two of the abstracts were ALSO accepted at Conference Y, but for various reasons I don't want to NOT mention Conference Y altogether. So if I made two experiences, one for each conference, I would run into two problems:

1) Experience 1 for Conference X would be VERY full, as all 6 titles won't fit in 700 characters.
2) Experience 2 for Conference Y would be kind of redundant since both abstracts were also presented at the more prestigious Conference X.

The alternative I'm starting to play with given your comments is to downplay Conference Y as follows. Any opinions on which (this post, or my previous post) is better?

EXPERIENCE 1
Experience Name: First Author of Platforms and Posters at X Meeting
First Author: Presenter
- X Platform: Title (also a platform at Y Meeting)
- X Poster: Title (also a platform at Y Meeting)
- X Poster: Title

EXPERIENCE 2
Experience Name: Second Author of Posters at X Meeting
Second Author: Last-Name, F., Spinstress, M., et al.
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title

 

[NickNaylor]

IMO you're way overthinking this. Just list the citations. If you don't have enough room to list all of them and don't want to create a second activity, then just list the ones that are most important to you. Another option is to list individual projects as activities and include citations from those projects within the activity description. Shorthand your citations - this isn't going to be a manuscript submitted for publication where your citation format actually matters.

 

[maroonspinstress]

IMO you're way overthinking this. Just list the citations. If you don't have enough room to list all of them and don't want to create a second activity, then just list the ones that are most important to you. Another option is to list individual projects as activities and include citations from those projects within the activity description. Shorthand your citations - this isn't going to be a manuscript submitted for publication where your citation format actually matters.

Thanks! That's what I originally thought too, but a browse through similar previous topics showed a lot of people saying they included abstracts and stuff, so I wasn't sure what I'm expected to include. Just wanted to make sure that Title/Conference/Place in authorship was enough and to see what formats have worked for other people.

 

[Anthrax]

Yes absolutely Title/Conference/Place in authorship is enough. Personally, I didn't mention my project titles because they were too long but rather briefly mentioned what the project was about. There's many ways you can go about it as long as you feel you're including the most important info.

 

[sunshine02]

Hi SDN! I've been working on this for a while and can't find an elegant way of listing my poster/platform presentations. I only want to use up 2 experiences for all these, as I already have a separate experience explaining the research internship that resulted in these abstracts.

Overall, I had abstracts accepted at two conferences: some 1st author, some 2nd author, some as platforms, some as posters, and one accepted as a poster at conference X and as a platform at conference Y.

My best attempt is shown below. Even then, I am out of room because my titles were quite long. Questions:

1) Does anyone see a better way of doing this?
2) Is this way of showing authorship appropriate (underlined on SDN for clarity)?
3) Is there any more info that I need to include other than the title and the conference?
4) I read in some other threads that people included the abstract in the description. My abstracts don't fit in 700 characters--is this really necessary?


First Author of Platforms and Posters at X & Y Meetings
First Author: Presenter
- X & Y Platforms: Title
- X Poster & Y Platform: Title
- X Poster: Title

Second Author of Posters at X Meeting
Second Author: Last, F., Spinstress, M., et al.
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title
- X Poster: Title

Wait, isn't it best to just have one heading "Conferences" and then in the description box list the posters/presentations/author place? That's what I was planning on doing. It seems like people here recommend creating 2 entries (1 for each conference)?
@Catalystik, what do you recommend?

 

[maroonspinstress]

Wait, isn't it best to just have one heading "Conferences" and then in the description box list the posters/presentations/author place? That's what I was planning on doing. It seems like people here recommend creating 2 entries (1 for each conference)?
@Catalystik, what do you recommend?

Yes I agree with you, but this doesn't work for me because all my posters/presentations don't fit in one experience. If I only had 3-4 presentations, one "Conference" entry would be ideal! So, since I needed to split my presentations across two experience descriptions, I was trying to find a clean way to divide it up.

Ultimately, the best way for me was to split by authorship (it was a nice 3 and 3 split).

 

[Anthrax]

Wait, isn't it best to just have one heading "Conferences" and then in the description box list the posters/presentations/author place? That's what I was planning on doing. It seems like people here recommend creating 2 entries (1 for each conference)?
@Catalystik, what do you recommend?

Yes, if you can fit all of your presentations into one entry then you should just use one. But this individual has many presentations that can't fit into one.