The poster presentation forum will maximize your opportunity to interact with participants and answer their questions. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of the research.
A. DISPLAY DIMENSIONS
- Your poster should be, one metre x one metre poster
- A board will be provided to hang your poster.
B. FORMAT
- Poster presentations are hard‐copy (paper/poster) format only.
- Posters must fit within the designated display area.
- The most successful and attractive posters are graphically produced posters that highlight and summarize the main points, with the poster presenter filling in the details.
- The entire poster layout should be readable from six to ten feet away.
- The least effective poster format is a photocopy of the manuscript.
C. POSTERS SHOULD INCLUDE
- The paper title or program title and all authors at the top of the poster.
- A brief introduction, goals/objectives/hypotheses, methods, key findings from the research/program, conclusions, and references (make sure this information is presented in a logical and clear sequence).
- Explanations for graphs, pictures, and tables.
D. VISUALS
- The poster design can be in landscape format. It generally should read from left to right, and top to bottom.
- Make sure that any visual can "stand alone" (i.e., graph axes are properly labeled, maps have north arrows and distance scales, symbols are explained, etc.).
- Use color to enhance comprehension, not to decorate the poster.
- Make sure that the text and the visuals are integrated. Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they are first mentioned in the text.
- Each visual should have a brief title (for example: Figure 1- Location of study area).
E. SET UP INSTRUCTIONS
- Presenters will be provided with materials to affix their posters on the board
- Presenters will be expected to set-up their poster to the board.
- Paper numbers will be placed on the poster boards in numerical order; please find your paper number and put up your poster in the designated space.
- Presenters who will not have placed their poster(s) on their assigned board by 15 minutes prior to the session on the day of their presentation will be considered to have not turned up for their presentation.
- Presenters must remove their posters immediately after the poster session, or by the time listed in the conference program. Any posters that are not removed will be considered unwanted and will be discarded. The conference organizers assume no responsibility for posters left up after the end of the poster session.
F. REGISTRATION
- All poster presenters will be required to register just like any other conference delegate and will receive a poster number before setting up their poster.
G. SUBMISSION & DEADLINE
- Poster Abstract submission deadline 30th April 2018
- All posters must be submit in widescreen powerpoint by email to pashda2018@ug.edu.gh
H. ASSESSMENT & NOTIFICATION
- Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee
- Acceptance of an Abstract will be based on the criteria outlined above.
- The Scientific Committee reserves the right to accept or reject an abstract.
- Notification of accepted abstracts will be sent to the authors on or before 30 July 2018
- Presentation schedule and presentation guidelines (oral, poster, exhibition or symposia) will be available on or before 31 July 2018.
I. OTHERS
- Location of Poster Displays: to be communicated later
- Poster Presentation Timing ‐ to be communicated later
- Poster Viewing with Presenter - to be communicated later