Leadership Lesson: Create a Compelling Poster with Microsoft PowerPoint

Poster presentations are opportunities for informal discussion about your research. Good poster design looks easy. But it can be challenging to use images, graphics and text to communicate the essentials of your work in a way that transforms casual interest into engaging conversation.

The content of a poster presentation typically focuses on the data and findings of the research, and provides an argument for validity and importance. Photography and charts can be used to illustrate data and text.

A compelling poster effectively brings together a clear and concise description of the work with visual cues that enhance the narrative.

Microsoft PowerPoint has a feature that can create a poster-size (up to 56 inches) display incorporating text, images, and graphics. Learning this design technology along with a few simple guidelines about visual communication potentially can improve the way you tell the story of your work. The "Action Plan" provides suggested design principles for your next poster. The examples were selected from the "Advancing Diversity to Strengthen the Professional Workforce" poster reception held at AAMC's 2005 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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