Transcript Building your poster - Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Building your poster
MS PowerPoint
Carlos Orozco
VICTR-CRC
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
Poster Components
 Title
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Methods
 Results
 Conclusions
 Acknowledgements
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
Title
Study title
Authors
Author’s Affiliation
Drug A reduces cardiovascular risk in xyz diseases
Drug A Reduces Cardiovascular Risk in XYZ Diseases
DRUG A REDUCES CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN XYZ DISEASES
Kyoko Sato1, Richard Urbano1, Chang Yu1, Fumiyasu Yamasaki2, Takayuki Sato2
1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, 2Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan
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Format
• Section headings & figure titles:
bold, sentence case.
• Text blocks:
justify with sentence case.
• Poster edges must have 1.5” of clearance.
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Introduction
• Perspective, emphasize up to 4 points
• Importance of problem
• Previous studies
• Main issue
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
Objective
 Study question
 Hypothesis
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
Methods
 Laboratory - Experimental mode
 Clinical - Study design, population,
inclusion/exclusion criteria, conditions and
interventions, etc…
 Specific grouping and outcome measurement
 Statistical methods – Sample size, analysis,
significance, etc…
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
Results
 Up to 4 placards, graphs and charts are
preferred
 Limitations – Model and design, data,
interpretation (translation)
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Conclusions
 3 Major points
 Next step
 Clinical effects
 Implications
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Acknowledgements
 Funding sources
"Supported in part by Vanderbilt CTSA grant
1 UL1 RR024975 from the
National Center for Research Resources,
National Institutes of Health"
 Technical help
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Bitmap “dots per inch”
 Tiff - Photo realistic used with scanners.
 Gif - Internet graphics, up to 256 colors.
 JPG – Photo realistic images, no color limit.
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ALWAYS COPY AND PASTE SPECIAL ALL
YOUR IMAGES IN TO YOUR SLIDE…
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Vector “lines & shapes”
• SVG
• Encapsulated Postscript
 PDF
 SWF
 Windows Metafile
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Vector CAN convert to bitmap
Bitmap CAN’T convert to vector
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bitmap
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vector
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Vector - bitmap
BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE
************** Hands on example **************
External Poster Printing Resources
www.kinkos.com
www.erposter.com
www.uprinting.com