Transcript 48x36 Poster Template

Title
Authors
Associated institutions
Research Question
Specify the specific aims for your study.
Significance
Charts/Graphs/Pictures
Lights! Camera! Graphs! Photos! Lurid Data! Yow!
You get the idea. Here is where you put your eyeball grabbing data, amazing graphs,
and stupendous radiology and photos. Just don’t get all carried away with the three-D
stuff and the retina searing color combinations.
Provide your information in a clear, informative, and yes, entertaining fashion.
Using the literature, establish any previous work related to your research question.
This section should describe the gaping hole in the literature, and how your specific
aims will attempt to address the gaping hole.
Remember to number all Tables and Figures, so that you can easily refer to them in the
Results section.
Analyses
Design
What research design was used to address your specific aims?
Use this section to provide a brief description of the statistical tests used, your sample
size justification (if pertinent to your study), and your criterion for significance (e.g., P <
0.05).
Examples include:
Case series, case-control, retrospective cohort, cross-sectional, prospective cohort,
randomized controlled trial
HEY!! - Not only is a retrospective chart review not a study design, it’s redundantly
redundant. Get your terms straight, buckaroo! It’s probably really a case series or
retrospective cohort study, but if in doubt, please check with your co-authors, or contact
the GRMEP Research Department.
Subjects
This is where you’d plop your patient information but, truth be told, not all studies
involve patients, so adjust your heading accordingly. For example, you could have
done an animal study, worked with cells, or even run a meta-analysis.
Assuming this is a clinical study, however, you need to provide information to your
reader concerning your subjects. You should describe from where you obtained your
subjects, over what time period, and using which specific inclusion and exclusion
criteria. If this was a prospective study, you will need to state whether informed
consent was obtained.
Methods & Procedures
This section basically describes your experimental treatments/interventions (if any),
your methods of obtaining your data, and a description of your variables.
So, if you had a treatment to describe how you removed a patient’s spleen using two
magnets and a bungee cord, that would go in here.
Likewise, you would provide information about a chart review in this section as well.
Provide information about your primary outcome variable, as well as all secondary
outcome variables. At times, it will be necessary to define these variables, so please
be precise.
Don’t Be Constrained by These Headings
Every study is different, so don’t feel like you have to mash your round pegs to fit into
this template’s square holes. Add sections and headings as are dictated by your study.
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Results
Here’s where you provide some detail to all of the cool tables and figures that you have
provided.
Make sure that the reader is very aware of what you consider to be the major findings
from your study. This is also a place to remark upon some of the minor findings that did
not make their way into any of your tables and figures.
HEY!! - Don’t just regurgitate the same information that is already present in your tables
and figures. Pick out specific pieces of information upon which you would like your
reader to focus.
Discussion
The discussion section is used to summarize the main findings from your study, and to
interpret your results relative to current findings in the literature.
Conclusions & Implications
The big finish, where you get to blow your audience away with your final, pithy comment.
This should be brief, three sentences tops. If you’re at a loss for words, you can either do
a combined Discussion/Conclusions section, or just do a conclusions section that
reiterates the importance of your study.
References
While it is a nice thing to include references, if you’re crunched for space, these are the
first things to go. If the choice is between including a really good looking graph or the
references, ditch the references and show the graph.