Do medical school "research day" poster presentations hold much weight?

[rodmichael82]

I ask specifically for applicants with little to no research experience that are applying to competitive specialties e.g Derm, Plastics etc....

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[LoveIR]

Better than nothing, not as good as a national meeting.

FWIW I presented a poster at my school's research day and a national meeting, and only bothered to list the national meeting on my residency application (Radiology). I thought listing both would be cheesy/resumé padding.

 

[notbobtrustme]

Better than nothing, not as good as a national meeting.

FWIW I presented a poster at my school's research day and a national meeting, and only bothered to list the national meeting on my residency application (Radiology). I thought listing both would be cheesy/resumé padding.

double dipping is always cheesy

 

[operaman]

Better than nothing, not as good as a national meeting.

FWIW I presented a poster at my school's research day and a national meeting, and only bothered to list the national meeting on my residency application (Radiology). I thought listing both would be cheesy/resumé padding.

Yeah, somewhat. Probably doesn't add anything if someone reads closely. That said, while presenting the same thing at 2 meetings and putting both on your CV is generally frowned upon, that doesn't really include school research days or even local/regional meetings. Shopping the same talk around to multiple national meetings is not kosher and usually against the rules of the conference, but people will frequently present first at their school day or grand rounds or at a small regional meeting before presenting the same work at a larger national meeting. I list all of them under presentations.

 

[rodmichael82]

Or vice versa. Most local/school conferences won't care if you already presented it at a national meeting. Different audiences as the local meeting will be a lot of community guys.

Better than nothing, not as good as a national meeting.

FWIW I presented a poster at my school's research day and a national meeting, and only bothered to list the national meeting on my residency application (Radiology). I thought listing both would be cheesy/resumé padding.

Yeah, somewhat. Probably doesn't add anything if someone reads closely. That said, while presenting the same thing at 2 meetings and putting both on your CV is generally frowned upon, that doesn't really include school research days or even local/regional meetings. Shopping the same talk around to multiple national meetings is not kosher and usually against the rules of the conference, but people will frequently present first at their school day or grand rounds or at a small regional meeting before presenting the same work at a larger national meeting. I list all of them under presentations.

The reason why I'm asking is that even if I submit my abstract to a national conference most of them don't occur till next year 2016. Well by then ERAS will already be submitted, my understanding is that you can't report on ERAS that you presented something even if it's been "accepted" for a national conference. I figured that I'd take advantage of my medical school "research day" that happens this year before ERAS so that at least I can list it as a poster. Is my understanding of the situation correct? I'm just trying to get credit for the hard work that I'm putting in right now.

 

[operaman]

Present it at your school and list is as such on ERAS.

If it gets accepted to a national meeting, you can put it in ERAS as "accepted." Now that I think about it, not sure if you can do that with posters/presentations. I know you can with journal articles. I would try. If you can't get it to go under their presentation section, list it as a "research experience" and in the description say that it's been accepted at XYZ conference.

 

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[caffeinemia]

I can give you insight into plastics, which is probably one of the more research-favoring specialties.

We care most about publications. In specialty specific or high impacf factor journals (ie nature, science, nejm). After that, we care about publications in other journals/disciplines. After that we like presentations at national or regional conferences -- poster or podium, with podium being more valuable. Finally, we give minor or no consideration to school specific posters.

The logic being: if you could submit an abstract to your school, then you could submit it to your regional or nationa society. And if it wasn't good enough to get in, then you either chose a worthless topic or didn't do enough work to contribute anything valuable.

Just my two cents -- everyone feel free to disagree.

Btw, most plastics people come into interviews with 3-10+ pubs, numerous presentations/abstracts, etc. So this is almost never a real issue for us.

 

[SouthParkStudio]

I can give you insight into plastics, which is probably one of the more research-favoring specialties.

We care most about publications. In specialty specific or high impacf factor journals (ie nature, science, nejm). After that, we care about publications in other journals/disciplines. After that we like presentations at national or regional conferences -- poster or podium, with podium being more valuable. Finally, we give minor or no consideration to school specific posters.

The logic being: if you could submit an abstract to your school, then you could submit it to your regional or nationa society. And if it wasn't good enough to get in, then you either chose a worthless topic or didn't do enough work to contribute anything valuable.

Just my two cents -- everyone feel free to disagree.

Btw, most plastics people come into interviews with 3-10+ pubs, numerous presentations/abstracts, etc. So this is almost never a real issue for us.

My school doesn't have plastics. We have lots of ortho. Would plastics pd yawn even if I presented it at a national level and it was published in like the AAOS database (but not indexed on pubmed)?