Poster Development and Presentation to Improve Scientific Inquiry and Broaden Effective Scientific Communication Skills

A Poster-Session Review to Reinforce Course Concepts and Improve Scientific Communication Skills†

Poster presentation - a visual medium for academic and scientific meetings.

Academic poster presentations are used as a medium of knowledge transfer by a wide range of health professional groups. Posters also provide a means of publication for academic and professional contributors. Posters are designed to give a visual representation of an issue that firstly attracts attention, and then conveys an intended message. Whilst the poster medium has become adopted into the ...

Scientific Inquiry:

As a simple illustration of some important aspects of scientific inquiry let us consider Semmelweis' work on childbed fever. Ignaz Semmelweis, a physician of Hungarian birth, did this work during the years from 1844 to 1848 at the Vienna General Hospital. As a member of the medical staff of the First Maternity Division in the hospital, Semmelweis was distressed to find that a large proportion o...

The Science Assistments Project: Intelligent tutoring for scientific inquiry skills

Our learning environment Science Assistments (www.scienceassistments.org; NSF-DRL# 0733286; NSFDGE# 0742503; NSF-DRL# 1008649; U.S. Dept of Ed.# R305A090170) scaffolds middle school students’ scientific processes, namely, hypothesizing, design of experiments, data interpretation, warranting claims with evidence, and communicating findings for Physical Science, Life Science, and Earth Science. W...

Scientific Poster Presentations

s of the 1 MC-GARD Meeting, 3–5 May 2007: Scientific Poster Presentations 130 inflammatory, oxidative stress and DNA damage responses. Microarray analysis could be an effective tool for identifying genes differently involved in PPN and for better understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms of PPN. P3 A DELETION IN CHROMOSOME 7Q21.13 DETECTED IN A PATIENT PRESENTING WITH DYSMORPHIC FACIAL FEATU...