PhD/PsyD PhD: Listing poster presentations at local conferences?

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For PhD programs... I have some posters of my research presented at internal conferences/symposiums in the hospital/medical school I work at and some presented at my university research days. Is it worth it to list those? Some have told me that only posters presented at national conferences and published manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals should be listed.

 

[Ollie123]

I wouldn't double-count them (i.e. list them twice it was presented both locally and nationally) but I think its perfectly acceptable to list them. If you did present them twice I've seen people say "Presented at the annual APA Convention AND the Univ. of blah blah Department of psychology undergraduate research fair" in the citation. Don't expect it to count for much, but if you are just applying to graduate school I think anything that shows some level of research involvement is helpful. Presenting at a university research day is significantly more than most people do in undergraduate.

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I wouldn't double-count them (i.e. list them twice it was presented both locally and nationally) but I think its perfectly acceptable to list them. If you did present them twice I've seen people say "Presented at the annual APA Convention AND the Univ. of blah blah Department of psychology undergraduate research fair" in the citation. Don't expect it to count for much, but if you are just applying to graduate school I think anything that shows some level of research involvement is helpful. Presenting at a university research day is significantly more than most people do in undergraduate.

Agreed with Ollie. It's perfectly ok to list them, particularly while you're still in grad school or prior to applying (although these are likely the types of things that ultimately start getting jettisoned if/when your publication record starts increasing). Although as Ollie mentioned, just avoid double dipping by listing the same poster twice if it was presented at two separate conferences; in that case, go with the larger conference and drop the smaller one or list them both under a single entry.

 

[WisNeuro]

Fine for grad school apps, start dropping the local stuff once you edit your CV for internship apps and beyond.

 

[LivingOffLoans]

What about listing presentations or manuscripts submitted/in development in sections separate from research experience? Is it going to look like I am just trying to fill up space if I put the same project in different sections, or would it be better to list them in one section (research experience) with detailed bullet points about where/when it was presented, in addition to duties performed?

 

[WisNeuro]

The manuscripts section should only have things published in peer-reviewed sources. Create another section for in prep/submitted. Then you have a section for presentations that you have actually given, "published abstracts" are a different section. Your research experience in general goes in a separate section.

 

[LivingOffLoans]

The manuscripts section should only have things published in peer-reviewed sources. Create another section for in prep/submitted. Then you have a section for presentations that you have actually given, "published abstracts" are a different section. Your research experience in general goes in a separate section.

I know this is a minor detail, but would you recommend parenthesizing the year the data was originally analyzed and worked through, or would you omit the year entirely given that we don't know when it will be submitted?

 

[WisNeuro]

No need to paranthesize the year.

 

[LivingOffLoans]

One more...

I am disappointed to have just now learned a study I assisted on in 2011 was published without my name in the authors. I was acknowledged among a handful of other research assistants who tested subjects and collected data, but my name is not listed among the authors in the database! Am I still able to put this on my CV under publications or something? Even if my name is omitted from the list because I am not an official author?

 

[WisNeuro]

Nope, you can list it under research experience, but not under publications. Also, just because you assisted on a research project, that doesn't give you any publication rights. Contribution to the manuscript, or a substantial amount of work on the research plan would, but merely being a research assistant does not.

 

[MCParent]

One more...

I am disappointed to have just now learned a study I assisted on in 2011 was published without my name in the authors. I was acknowledged among a handful of other research assistants who tested subjects and collected data, but my name is not listed among the authors in the database! Am I still able to put this on my CV under publications or something? Even if my name is omitted from the list because I am not an official author?

The APA pub manual specifies that assisting with data collection does not warrant authorship on a paper. Unless you're saying that you DID do more (thought of the study, wrote it up, did the analysis) and you're saying you were credited as though you were just one of a handful of RAs.
Generally it's a good idea to clarify expectations about authorship before beginning anything.
You'd list it like WN said.

 

[AcronymAllergy]

The APA pub manual specifies that assisting with data collection does not warrant authorship on a paper. Unless you're saying that you DID do more (thought of the study, wrote it up, did the analysis) and you're saying you were credited as though you were just one of a handful of RAs.
Generally it's a good idea to clarify expectations about authorship before beginning anything.
You'd list it like WN said.

Very much agree. Some folks may view it as an inconvenience or think of it as a minor detail, but I'd disagree; establishing expectations regarding authorship ordering at the outset of the manuscript prep process can save a lot of aggravation on the back end.