Doing Research in my "year off"

[futuredo32]

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I didn't match into a residency program and I'm working on a research project. I would like to do a poster presentation and the results of the research are applicable to a lot of fields- psychiatry, family practice, OB/Gyn, Pediatrics. I am trying to find conferences where I can present the poster and I have been googling for hours and hours and have only come up with a few options and those are either in the spring of 2010 or they were in the spring of 2009 with no information about future opportunities. Or I find hospitals that have research days limited to their own residents. Does anyone know of any conferences , preferably in the fall and close to Michigan? Or, alternatively, any google phrases(I've tried "poster presentation,", "abstract," "research" "psych, peds, family practice, OB/Gyn")
I'd really like to be able to do a poster presentation in the fall so that it will hopefully help me a little bit to match next time.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Perhaps a little more information on what the project is about would be helpful.

All specialties have annual meetings which have poster presentations that you can submit an application for. For example, the American College of Surgeons annual meeting is always in October and there is a Spring Congress meeting as well.

If your topic is truly of interest to all those specialties, I suggest you type in American College of <insert specialty X> and follow the links to meetings. You just missed the annual ACOOG in Chicago but I am sure there are others in your vicinity. This is what you want to be Googling rather than poster-presentations.

 

[futuredo32]

Thank you very much, Winged Scapula. Typing in "American College of..." actually got me a lot of results. I can't even begin to count the number of hours I wasted typing in other phrases.

 

[dragonfly99]

Agree with above. Also, the ACP-ASIM has state meetings (that's american society of internal medicine). Those generally feature a poster session with posters that are mainly from house staff/residents, but they may take one from a student. It would be worthwhile checking on that. The one in my state was in October but I believe the poster submission deadline was in August.

You should try and see if AAFP has any state conferences, as well.

The AMA resident/fellow section also has a poster session at the annual meeting (it's in either November or December). The cool thing about this one is that they allow you to present results even if they've already been presented @another conference, or already published.

p.s. You should try to get your med school to help you, if you can. You paid them a lot of $$$ to go there and they may be able to help you with getting the poster printed up, or with faculty to help you review/assess it when you start writing it up.

 

[futuredo32]

Agree with above. Also, the ACP-ASIM has state meetings (that's american society of internal medicine). Those generally feature a poster session with posters that are mainly from house staff/residents, but they may take one from a student. It would be worthwhile checking on that. The one in my state was in October but I believe the poster submission deadline was in August.

You should try and see if AAFP has any state conferences, as well.

The AMA resident/fellow section also has a poster session at the annual meeting (it's in either November or December). The cool thing about this one is that they allow you to present results even if they've already been presented @another conference, or already published.

p.s. You should try to get your med school to help you, if you can. You paid them a lot of $$$ to go there and they may be able to help you with getting the poster printed up, or with faculty to help you review/assess it when you start writing it up.

Thank you Dragonfly. It's not my personal research project, I'm actually helping out on a research project that is being done by one of the faculty and senior residents, so I think that they'll help me to review and assess it. They are both so very nice and helpful.🙂