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Hi all,

I'm an MS2 and recently submitted an abstract for a poster presentation at a national academic conference in a competitive specialty. I am definitely interested in the field, and also looking for ways to try to build my application to give myself the best chances of matching (or pivoting into another specialty down the road). This same conference has a regional conference, and they explicitly said we can use the same abstract for the regional event.

I know networking and learning from some of the folks in the field would be beneficial for me, but would there be any benefit with regards to building my application for residency if I were to basically present the same information and have the same title on both poster presentations/my CV? I've also had slightly less data from this project that I had already presented at a school conference.

Thanks for all your help 🙂!

 

[NotaCop]

Title it differently to highlight another aspect of the research findings. At a glance this looks better on the CV, despite essentially just being bloat.

 

[hellofriends:)]

Title it differently to highlight another aspect of the research findings. At a glance this looks better on the CV, despite essentially just being bloat.

wouldn't this still be kinda obvious though considering the regional/national conference have similar names?

 

[mvenus929]

When I've seen this before, the regional conference was usually before the national conference. This allowed people to practice their presentations before they were on a national level. For poster sessions, probably not as big of a deal, but it might help you snag someone's interest more.

 

[NotaCop]

wouldn't this still be kinda obvious though considering the regional/national conference have similar names?

Of course, but my personal opinion is always to cut down redundancy on a CV. I'd rather see one where the person presented three unique poster titles, even if clearly part of the same project, as this may indicate they legitimately included new data or something vs. one where the exact same poster is listed three times which may come off as lazy/trying to bloat the CV.

Regardless of the truth, always try to manage impressions wherever you can.

 

[ceilingfan019]

I've seen people report the same project that has been presented at difference conferences written on their CVs multiple times while listing which conferences it was at. I think this is a good idea if, for example, one meeting accepts it as a poster and another accepts it as a podium. I've had this happen to me and I put the same project in my CV as both a poster and a podium in separate sections.

I don't really know much about how a committee will find this, but I know a current resident in a competitive specialty in a top 5 program that did this when he applied. Can't be that bad right?

 

[hellofriends:)]

I've seen people report the same project that has been presented at difference conferences written on their CVs multiple times while listing which conferences it was at. I think this is a good idea if, for example, one meeting accepts it as a poster and another accepts it as a podium. I've had this happen to me and I put the same project in my CV as both a poster and a podium in separate sections.

I don't really know much about how a committee will find this, but I know a current resident in a competitive specialty in a top 5 program that did this when he applied. Can't be that bad right?

yeah that was my guess as well, thanks for all the help everybody! at the very least, it'll be a learning experience