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 DISEASESKyoko Sato1, Richard Urbano1, Chang Yu1, Fumiyasu Yamasaki2, Takayuki Sato2

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, 2Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Format• Section headings & figure titles:

bold, sentence case.• Text blocks:

justify with sentence case.• Poster edges must have 1.5” of clearance.

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

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)

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Conclusions 3 Major points Next step Clinical effects Implications

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

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

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Bitmap “dots per inch” Tiff - Photo realistic used with scanners. Gif - Internet graphics, up to 256 colors. JPG – Photo realistic images, no color limit.

ALWAYS COPY AND PASTE SPECIAL ALL YOUR IMAGES IN TO YOUR SLIDE…

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Vector “lines & shapes”• SVG• Encapsulated Postscript PDF SWF Windows Metafile

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Vector CAN convert to bitmap Bitmap CAN’T convert to vector

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

bitmap

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

vector

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

Vector - bitmap

BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE

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