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With the GW Research Showcase (April 11th-14th) and the SMHS Medical Student Research Day (April 28th) just around the corner, it’s time to put the final touches on your poster! Himmelfarb Library can help! Our GW Research Day Resources Guide is filled with helpful resources that can help you make your poster stand out.

The Creating Effective Posters page has poster templates, official GW logos, and official GW color palette to help you stay consistent with GW’s brand. Are you creating your poster using PowerPoint? Watch Barbara McGowan’s video (below) on Designing an Effective Poster Using PowerPoint for tips on size, color selection, font choices, and content choices including using graphs, charts, and photographs. 

Check out the Poster Design and Layout tab for helpful tips on choosing fonts, resizing images and getting posters printed. When it comes to fonts, keep it simple and choose standard fonts like Times New Roman or Arial. Images should be 300 dpi JPEG files or full-size PDF files. If you need to resize an image, be sure to keep the proper proportions so the image isn’t distorted and “squishy” looking. For more tips on Optimizing Your Post Design and Layout, watch a recorded session led by Barbara McGowan and Himmelfarb’s own Catherine Sluder (access is restricted to members of the GW community). 

Want to know more about what judges are looking for in poster presentations? We have videos that cover that too! Learn how to impress the judges by watching the How to Present Your Poster and Wow the Judges video (access is restricted to members of the GW community). Learn more about Giving Effective Poster Presentations and Poster Presentation Practice and Feedback in these videos.

Once your poster is finished, don’t forget to archive your poster in the Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC), Himmelfarb’s institutional repository! You can view posters from past years in the HSRC if you need some inspiration or just want to see examples of past posters. To find out more or to submit your poster to the HSRC, contact Sara Hoover at shoover@gwu.edu. 

All of us here at Himmelfarb Library wish you the best of luck at GW Research Showcase and SMHS Medical Student Research Day!

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With the deadline for abstract submissions for SMHS Medical Student Research Day quickly approaching (Monday, March 14, 2022), there isn’t much time left to get your abstract ready. Himmelfarb Library can help! Our GW Research Day Resources: Writing Abstracts guide is a great place to get started!

Knowing what needs to be included in your abstract before you get started is key. Your abstract should include four specific aspects:

Abstract Do’s: 4 Things to Include

  1. Problem Statement/Introduction: Explain why your research is important, and be sure to make this engaging enough to grab the reader’s attention! 
  1. Methods: Explain how you did your research and obtained the results. Research design, setting, population and sample size, study duration, research instrument, and treatment or procedure should all be included here.
  1. Results: Explain your findings, but don’t analyze the results here - save your analysis for the conclusion!
  1. Conclusion: Analyze the results and implications of your findings here.

Knowing what not to include in your abstract is just as important as knowing what to include. Avoid including the following four pitfalls:

Abstract Don’ts: 4 Things to Avoid

  1. Too Much Information: An abstract should be succinct: keep it short and to the point. Don’t overload your abstract with information. A good abstract should be between 250-400 words, so keep it simple.
  1. Incomplete Sentences: Don’t use bullet points or incomplete sentences. An abstract is a short narrative of your project, so writing in complete sentences is a must.
  1. Jargon: Avoid using abbreviations, acronyms and jargon in your abstract. 
  1. Images, Tables, Graphs, and References: Images of any kind, or references to them, should be avoided. Save the graphics for your poster.

For a more in-depth explanation of best practices for writing research day abstracts, watch Himmelfarb’s How to Create and Write Your Abstract video.

Looking at examples of well written abstracts can also be helpful. Stay tuned to Himmelfarb’s blog in early April for more information on creating an effective poster! 

Good luck and happy writing!

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The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences celebrated Medical Student Research Day on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. More than 160 medical students submitted abstracts on a broad range of topics pertaining to medical education, public health, and clinical and translational research.

We congratulate all who participated in the event. Awards were presented to the following medical students:

Donald H. Glew Prize

Nyshidha Gurijala

Faculty Mentor: Laura Olivieri, Division of Cardiology, Children's National

Category: Clinical and Translational Research: Cardiology

Title: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance with Parametric Mapping to Predict Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

Best Abstract Awards

Nicole Casasanta

Faculty Mentor: P Sheena Khurana, Department of Medicine, GWU

Category: Clinical and Translational Research: Cardiology

Title: Comparison of average and lowest home and office blood pressure recordings and implications on the management of chronic hypertension

Eric Chalif

Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Sherman, Department of Neurosurgery, GW SMHS

Category: Clinical and Translational Research: Neurosurgery

Title: CyberKnife Radiosurgery Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Single Institution Examination with Long Term Follow-Up

Marie-Claire Partridge

Faculty Mentor: Shana Jacobs, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, CNMC

Category: Clinical and Translational Research: Genomics

Title: Pharmacogenetics of Ondansetron Failure in Pediatric Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting

Spencer Brodsky

Faculty Mentor: Komal Patel, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, GWU

Category: Public Health: Health Policy

Title: An examination of data from 700 crashes involving mopeds and scooters in Washington, D.C., from 2016 to 2019

Kelsi Knapp

Faculty Mentor: Lamia Soghier, CNMC

Category: Public Health: Community and Urban Health

Title: The effects of neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status on parental engagement and psychological distress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Theodore Quan

Faculty Mentor: Ali Pourmand, Department of Emergency Medicine, GWU

Category: Public Health: Community and Urban Health

Title: Racial Demographics and Resource Utilization Among Teenagers with Firearm-Related Injuries Presenting to the Emergency Department, 2010-2015

Brianna McKiernan

Faculty Mentor: Kate Douglass, The Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, GWU

Category: Medical Education

Title: Introduction of formative assessment tool in a post-graduate training program in India: a mixed methods evaluation

William Beaumont Research Awards

Akshay Reddy

Faculty Mentor: Michael Whalen, Department of Urology, GW SMHS.

Title: Comparison of Oncologic Outcomes for Robotic Vs Open Radical Cystectomy Among Locally Advanced and Node-Positive Patients: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database

Guido Pelaez

Faculty Mentor: Alejandro Villagra, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, GW Cancer Center, GW SMHS.

Title: Functional Characterization of Next Generation Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibitors

Erin Felton

Faculty Mentor: Andrea Hahn, Infectious Disease, Children’s National Health System

Title: Bacterial Functional Profiling of the Cystic Fibrosis Airway Across Clinical States

Doris DeFord Speck and George Speck, MD Endowed Prize for Student Medical Research

Sharjeel Chaudhry

 

 

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