{"id":32942,"date":"2012-11-06T20:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=32942"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:16:09","slug":"poster-sessions-better-to-present-or-observe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/11\/06\/poster-sessions-better-to-present-or-observe\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster Sessions: Better to Present or Observe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.12 in LA this week are blogging together for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0Tariq Ahmad<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Reva Balakrishnan<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Megan Coylewright<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Eiman Jahangir<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Amit Shah<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0John Ryan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(moderator). Read the previous post\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 Find the next one here<\/a>. For\u00a0related CardioExchange content, go to our\u00a0AHA 2012 Headquarters<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0page.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, I had my poster presentation session. I was excited and had worked hard on the poster. When it came time to print it, I decided to use the AHA printing service. This service is a great resource as they not only print the posters at competitive prices but also will deliver it to the conference and set it up for you.<\/p>\n

So this morning, I woke up and hurriedly went to the convention hall to ensure my poster was there. A small part of me was worried that it might not show up or had been lost in the mix. When I showed up, I gave a sigh of relief. There was my poster, and it was set up and ready to go.<\/p>\n

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Relaxed and ready to present knowing all I had to do was show up!<\/p><\/div>\n

The session was good but not that busy. There were only four interested people who stopped to chat. One was a reporter, two were from industry outside of the U.S., and one was a rheumatologist. Not a single cardiologist to speak of.<\/p>\n

So after 90 minutes, I left my poster to see how others were doing. I ran into my co-fellow from Vanderbilt University, Sandeep Goyal (see picture below), who had done interesting work in atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea. We talked a while about his work before I moved on. By the end of the session, while I enjoyed talking to the few individuals who stopped to talk about my poster, I found my interactions with other poster presenters more fulfilling.<\/p>\n

What part of the poster session do you find most intriguing — presenting or observing?<\/p>\n

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Sandeep Goyal, MD presenting work on atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fellow presents his poster to a few people but finds more fulfillment in interacting with other poster presenters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,1548,195],"class_list":["post-32942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aha-scientific-sessions","tag-aha-12","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}