Want to participate in the Missouri Poster Competition but not sure where to begin? National ACP has a Guide for Preparing for an Abstract Competition.  Details for the Missouri competition are below. Judging criteria for review is available here. 

Residents

Students
The Missouri Chapter of the ACP will have its annual Residents Poster Contest in person in 2022. We have room for 90 Resident posters. All posters must be internal medicine specific and presenters must be Missouri ACP members.
 
All entries must be submitted through your Residency Program Director. If you are interested, please speak with your Program Director.  Individual submissions are not accepted. Submissions not focused on Internal Medicine or IM subspecialty will not be accepted.

View a complete list of poster contest rules.

Abstract Competition
We will allocate 80% of posters in the traditional manner for each program to decide which poster competitors to submit for the Chapter meeting.  The other 20% will be available for at large entries and will go through an abstract judging process by ACP member judges.  

Programs will still use their own process to select posters/abstracts for submission to the MO ACP competition.  Additionally, we are asking for each program to submit up to 5 additional abstracts for consideration by the judge panel.  See timeline below.

The abstract judging will take place virtually. All abstract participant names will need to be submitted to MO ACP.

2022 Important Dates/Timeline:
  • August 1 - Deadline for abstract competition names and abstracts to be submitted to MO ACP. Please submit abstracts in PDF form. 
  • August 7 - Names for poster competition due to Missouri ACP. 
  • August 8 - Abstract pre-judging information sent to judges.
  • August 18 - Abstract winners will be notified and automatically entered in the featured poster competition.
  • August 25 - All abstracts due to MO ACP
  • September 17 - Featured poster competition at Missouri ACP Scientific Meeting, St. Louis Union Station Hotel.
  • Winning posters will be recognized at the evening awards reception.


2021 Poster allocation:
4     Mercy
11   MU
13   SLU
6     St Luke's
4     St Mary's
11   UMKC
23   Wash U
72   Total resident posters allocated
18    Posters will be selected from a panel of judges during the pre-judge competition to present at the poster competition.
The Missouri Chapter of the ACP will have its annual Student Poster Contest in person. We have room for 20 Student posters. All posters must be internal medicine specific and presenters must be Missouri ACP members.

Entries are only accepted from Clerkship Directors who will submit the school's allotted entries to the Missouri ACP Poster Contest. If you are interested, please speak with your Clerkship Director. Individual submissions not submitted by a Clerkship Director will not be accepted.

All poster presenters must be members of the Missouri Chapter of the ACP.  We will decline entries from non-members who may be ACP members in another state. ​Submissions not focused on Internal Medicine or IM subspecialty will not be accepted.
More information is at Poster Rules.


2022 Important Dates/Timeline:
August 7 - Names of competitors due to Missouri ACP.
August 25 - Abstracts due to Missouri ACP in PDF form
September 17 - Poster competition at Missouri ACP Scientific Meeting, St. Louis Union Station Hotel.
  • Winning posters will be recognized at the evening awards reception.


Criteria for Poster Judging
Posters will be judged on a set of criteria based on the category of the poster. You can view the judging criteria here. 

See Some Examples