Eras experiences section-help

[USMELL]

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For sections without the red asterik is it bad to leave it blank, or should one just fill everything out even if it is not required. Like the area for avg hours/week, reason for leaving etc is not required.

Also those an undergraduate poster presentation go under publications?

thanks

 

[Winged Scapula]

For sections without the red asterik is it bad to leave it blank, or should one just fill everything out even if it is not required. Like the area for avg hours/week, reason for leaving etc is not required.

Also those an undergraduate poster presentation go under publications?

thanks

Fill out everything, even if not required.

Poster presentations are not publications.

 

[USMELL]

Fill out everything, even if not required.

Poster presentations are not publications.

thank you for your quick reply, okay where can I list my poster presentations or is it over kill to include this. thanks

 

[USMELL]

also under reason for leaving, if it was a summer fellowship, can I just say completion of program

 

[Winged Scapula]

also under reason for leaving, if it was a summer fellowship, can I just say completion of program

Sure, or you can say, "returned to school".

 

[USMELL]

Sure, or you can say, "returned to school".

can i put "enrolled in medical school" as a reason or those that sound lazy, is matriculated or began medical school better. btw this was for undergrad reasearch project in the same medical school I enrolled in?

 

[USMELL]

sorry another question, if I was president of a interest group for 1 year, but was a member all four years, what beginning and ending date do I put, under position I put president, but I was president 2005-2006, but member 2004-present. which date should I use?

 

[Law2Doc]

thank you for your quick reply, okay where can I list my poster presentations or is it over kill to include this. thanks

I have to disagree with Winged Scapula in one point. There is, in fact, a section under the ERAS publications heading for "poster presentations". So it actually is a publication per ERAS.
My one comment for the OP, however, is that an undergraduate poster presentation, if done at your school in connection with a school specific event, and not in connection with some national or organizational meeting, probably shouldn't get listed as a "publication", and I would be inclined to sweep this under your research experience description instead.

 

[USMELL]

I have to disagree with Winged Scapula in one point. There is, in fact, a section under the ERAS publications heading for "poster presentations". So it actually is a publication per ERAS.
My one comment for the OP, however, is that an undergraduate poster presentation, if done at your school in connection with a school specific event, and not in connection with some national or organizational meeting, probably shouldn't get listed as a "publication", and I would be inclined to sweep this under your research experience description instead.

thank you, I moved it to the experiences section, and titled position as Presenter, is that okay? I left reason for leaving blank since this was a one day event

 

[Still Kickin]

thank you, I moved it to the experiences section, and titled position as Presenter, is that okay? I left reason for leaving blank since this was a one day event

I'm not sure if this is what Law2Doc meant. What I took Law2Doc's suggestion to mean was that in the experiences section, you probably have an entry for your research experience. (ie - title "Student Researcher at Dr. XYZ's lab", 12 hours/week, etc.) And then there is a big box where you can describe that experience. In my case I used that box for a little summary about the general area of investigation & the responsibilities I had, etc.

I think Law2Doc is suggesting that in this same box about your research experience you would mention something about your poster - perhaps either listing the whole citation if you had space or maybe just saying something like "presentation made at (campus wide research day, etc.)"

I think it will look wierd to have created a whole separate "experience" just for a poster. (I mean, the experience section is for really BIG things with major time commitments, and by comparisson, I think a single poster is pretty trivial.) (And the poster fits UNDER the heading of one of your BIG research experiences, it is not a separate "experience" in and of itself.)

Personally, I listed my posters, both those presented at national meetings and those presented on campus in the "Presentations" ("Publications") section. I can see the argument for not putting "local" presentations in this section, thinking they are too insignificant to deserve an actual listing of their own. In my case I decided to go ahead & list the local presentations, too, I guess that is everyone's own judgement call...

I would agree with Winged Scapula that a poster is NOT the same thing as a publication.

However, the place within the ERAS program for you to enter posters seems to be within the "publications" section of ERAS. When you enter a "publication" there is a little drop down menu where you pick the publication "type". The "types" of publications include things like "peer reviewed publication in a journal" as well as "oral presentation", "poster presentation", etc.

I hope this makes sense.
Here is another thread where I tried to convey this concept previously:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=560534

 

[Winged Scapula]

Regardless of whether or not ERAS has a place for Poster Presentations, a one-day meeting, presented during undergrad and not submitted for publication, seems like something I would not include on ERAS.

Just my two cents...