Pediatric Research, Education & Scholarship Symposium (PRESS)

PRESS

What is PRESS?

PRESS is an annual event through which the Department of Pediatrics celebrates and showcases the depth and breadth of research and scholarly activities performed by Department trainees and sponsored by faculty members. PRESS uses a combination of oral and poster presentations to showcase these activities.

PRESS 2024

Friday, April 5th, 2024
Location: Wilf Family Center
Deadline to submit abstracts: Feb 2, 2024

Program Outline
10.30am-12.30pm: Poster setup
1.00p -2.00pm: Oral Presentations (Wilf Family Center Auditorium) 
2.00pm-3.00pm: Poster Session A: Pediatric Fellows, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students (Wilf Family Center Conference Rooms and hallways)
3.00pm-4.00pm: Oral Presentations
4.00pm-5.00pm: Poster Session B: Pediatric Residents, Medical Students, Postdoctoral Fellows (Wilf Family Center Conference Rooms and hallways)
5.00pm-5.30pm: Awards Ceremony (Wilf Family Center Auditorium) 

Submit Your Abstract

Sign Up to be a Faculty Judge for Posters

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Presenter Guidelines

Poster Presentation Guidelines

Poster layout & size

  • 48" x 36" PowerPoint landscape poster 
    Larger posters will be accommodated only if they are being presented at another national conference with different size specs (such as PAS). Contact pedsigp@umn.edu to request a larger poster size. 
  • Verify the page size in Acrobat in the "Properties or Document Properties" window under the File or Menu options.

Poster Templates (Download the file to use) 

Designing Your Poster

Poster Printers

  • University Printing Services
    Allow 2-3 day turnaround
    Submit a PDF, PowerPoint or common image files to the printer (PDF Preferred).
    You will need an EFS Chart String to pay for printing costs.
  • John & company at UMN Posters
    Ask for costs to be tax exempt
    Submit at https://umnposters.com/ and observe notes on the submission form for policies

Paying for you Poster

  • Undergraduate Students
    Ask your mentor to support the cost.
  • Medical Students
    Max Seham Student Award: $250 max for a local conference, deadline to apply is February 29th
  • Graduate Students
    Ask your mentor to support the cost.
  • Pediatric Residents
    Pediatric Residents can pay for their poster and request reimbursement from the Pediatric Education Office. 
  • Pediatric Fellows
    Ask your scholarly mentor if they have funds to support the cost.  If they do not, your $300 Annual Education Allowance can be used.

Oral Presentation Guidelines

  • Each presenter has a total of 15 minutes to present and answer questions from the audience.
  • Final presentation as a Google Slides presentation (16:9 ratio) will be due on March 29th

Templates

Information for Research Mentors

Research mentors for undergraduate students, medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows are expected to support the costs of poster printing for presenters if they do not have another funding source. 

If you have questions about how to reimburse a presenter who has paid out of pocket, please contact the relevant coordinator or administrator. 

Information for Faculty Judges

Sign up to be a Faculty Judge for posters here

Each judge is part of a scoring team. Each scoring team has been assigned to a specific category of learners for each session. Keep the category level in mind as you are scoring. The award categories are split as follows:

  • Undergraduate Students
  • Medical Students
  • Post-Doc Fellow/Graduate Student
  • Medical Residents
  • Medical Fellows

Posters will be scored in 4 categories.

  • Explanation of Research
  • Presentation
  • Q&A Section
  • Overall Research / Report Design 

Presentation of Awards

Congratulations to all the awardees!

We look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference on April 5th, 2024