Poster panic for research newbie

[cherryalmond]

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I have to do a poster or a lit review as a requirement for my program but I have little clue as to what is entailed in either. Please to anyone who has any kind of background in research help me out.
Which one is lighter, takes less time, less work? btw i do have data to use that i'm being given but i have no idea how to use it or what to do with it!
Which one will I end up learning more from during the process of doing it, meaning actual knowledge i can apply to real life when i'm working with my pts
which looks better on the resume

I guess whatever i choose i want to actual have gained knowledge that i can actually apply
Lit review or poster? help! i'm a research newbie!

 

[whopper]

(I hope you're not doomedandgloomed!)

A poster vs a lit-review?

IMHO, a poster should be done for something where you can easily tell a story and deliver good teaching points. It could involve an interesting case you've had. It could also cover a study you've done on your own. If you want to get a good idea of things to present in a poster presention, ask one of your attendings for an old copy of one of the medical conventions they attended. Several medical conventions have poster presentations and there is a catalog with a brief description of every poster. At some conventions there's hundreds of posters!

Ask your attendings if you could see the posters they did.

A lit-review is more of thing where one gets all the most research data on a particular subject that may be scattered throughout several articles, and like Steve Jobs, puts it in a useful and easy to understand manner where people walk out of it with something more than they started with.

If there is a particular subject you are fascinated with, I'd channel that passion into a lit-review.

 

[loveoforganic]

The data you were given is The data from an experiment previously carried out by your pi? It would be sort of odd doing lit review to write your introduction and whatnot after already having data. If you go that route, I wouldn't analyze the data until after you wrote intro/methods, and you'd also probably need help to know how to analyze.

At any rate, the poster sounds like it woul give you better insight into research and would be less writing than a lit review (but almost definitely more work).