Poster Presentation = Publication?

[jjancari]

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I participated in two research projects that concluded with a poster presentation, not sure if either would qualify as a publication.

I did one my senior year of high school which was about 9 months-long, that was through a national lab and had two professors from a prestigious university involved. The national lab tried to get high school students excited about research so they more or less developed a program where 3-4 high school students and 1 teacher created a research project then submitted it to the lab and about 1/3 of the projects were accepted.

The summer going into my freshman year of college I was offered a position to research with a professor and 2 other students. Every summer the college has a program that has about 2-3 students linked with a professor doing research for about a month then at the end they do a poster presentation.

The research done in both is not in any scientific journal or anything of that nature to my knowledge.

 

[cactusman]

No, they qualify as poster presentations. Positive but not on the same level as a pub.

 

[seeinghowitgoes]

Not to be a downer, but it's definitely not a publication, and, given there are also levels of them, I'd also say this seems a low level poster presentation too. That is, the resume value of summer program or local poster presentations is almost already captured by listing the research experience itself. Poster presentations that are at actual scientific meetings mean a little more but even then the acceptance rate is so high it's still not much of a differentiator in my mind.

Most impressive thing to me when I interview undergrads for Med school is those that know what the heck they're talking about with regard to their research projects. Even some with pubs can't describe their projects...

 

[JustAPhD]

Agree with the above. They're both poster presentations. Generally presentations at conferences are more impressive than a school-held event, but it's better than nothing.