ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2011
Poster presentations at medical conferences: an effective way of disseminating research?
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- What Makes a Good Poster? Evaluating #BetterPoster and Classic Formats at a Scientific Cancer Conference.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2026Article
- Fostering Conversations at Your Academic Poster: Creating Space for Comments and Interaction.Neurology. Education · 2025Article
- Impact of Financial Incentives and Department Size on Scholarly Activity Output.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- Academic conference posters: A systematic review.Innovations in pharmacy · 2025Review
- Academic conference posters: Describing visual impression in pharmacy education.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- What Is the Utility of Posters? Qualitative Study of Participants at a Regional Primary Healthcare Conference in Asia.Medical science educator · 2022Article
- Breaking the Curse: Opening Students' Eyes to Pathology and Oncology Research.Pathology oncology research : POR · 2020Article
- How to make an academic poster.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2016Article
- Preparing and presenting effective abstracts and posters in psychiatry.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2014Review
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Abstract
This study aimed to ascertain the value of posters at medical meetings to presenters and delegates. The usefulness of posters to presenters at national and international meetings was evaluated by assessing the numbers of delegates visiting them and the reasons why they visited. Memorability of selected posters was assessed and factors influencing their appeal to expert delegates identified. At both the national and international meetings, very few delegates (< 5%) visited posters. Only a minority read them and fewer asked useful questions. Recall of content was so poor that it prevented identification of factors improving their memorability. Factors increasing posters' visual appeal included their scientific content, pictures/graphs and limited use of words. Few delegates visit posters and those doing so recall little of their content. To engage their audience, researchers should design visually appealing posters by presenting high quality data in pictures or graphs without an excess of words.
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