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Hey guys!

So I have two posters I have created for two separate conferences where I am first author on both.

But after reading the help document found here http://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/files/2014/05/Help-Guide-2014-2015.pdf I am confused on which section to put them in.

Under the research section it says

"This section captures information about your research publications (not poster presentations). Please include only publications you have authored or co-authored (1st or 2nd author)."

 

which I thought was pretty clear and that I should put my posters in non-academic activities

until i got to the "Help Guide Extra – Where to Put Certain Activities" at the bottom of page 16 where it says this:

 

Posters: 
poster you authored or co-authored (1st or 2nd) - Research Publications

poster presentation - Non-Academic Activities
N/A - Employment History

 

 

which seems to suggest that my posters can go in the research publication section.

unless i have missed the difference between a poster authored and poster presentation?

can anyone help me out?

I have attached a screenshot of the section to save time if you didnt want to scroll through the help document.

thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
 

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Hi BioPerl,

I believe you can put posters under publications if you presented it at a conference, but the poster "presentation" aspect of it goes under nonacademic activities. That's my take on it.

 

I'm also having a problem with posters... because I am not sure whether Summer Research Poster Competitions (i.e. symposiums) can count as a conference where you presented a poster... or if it has to be a legit international type conference. Any take on that?

 

Thanks.

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That's a good question too. 

Okay here is my take on it (making the assumption my conference posters count as research), did you have to submit an abstract for your symposium that was approved (or could have been not approved?)? and is there some sort of symposium program that verifies your title abstract and name? If yes to both, I would count it as research publication.

I wouldn't be concerned about the small nature of the competition or the fact its not international. I think the biggest part of the phrasing is 'published'. so as long as it was reviewed and not a student thing on campus anyone could just sign up for it should go into the published research, if it was a competition anyone could enter I would think that would be more a really good extra-curricular competition (especially if you won something) but perhaps not published research? does that make sense?

I could be way off here, maybe someone else could chime in. I am making that conclusion based off that assumption that I don't know is right. I think that would separate a student poster presentation that was designed to tell undergrads about research at the school or be part of a grad student requirement versus some kind of peer review event.

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I agree

 

Basically: if it's some end of summer poster where you have to present out of requirement then it goes under EC. This includes competitions anyone could present at, lab or institute presentations or posters. That sort of thing.

 

Anything where you had to submit, get peer reviewed by others (not your own research group) , then accepted/ present, and also your work is published in the proceedings/conference booklet= tpub section

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