GUIDELINES FOR POSTER PRESENTATION COMPETITION
- Pharmacist Track posters: Presentation and judging will take place on:
- 5 October, 15:00–15:45 (GMT+8) (Pharmaceutical Sciences, Industrial Practices, and Regulatory Affairs; Pharmacy Education)
- 6 October, 8:30–9:30 (GMT+8) (Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice; Health Services Research)
- Pharmacy Technician Symposium posters: Presentation and judging will be on 5 October, 15:00–15:45 (GMT+8).
- All poster competition presenters are required to register for a 2-day onsite pass to the Congress on/before 31 July 2024. The poster competition presenter (PSS member or non-member) is eligible for early bird registration rates throughout the registration period. Please request the special registration link from the congress secretariat at secretariat.spc@mims.com
- All posters must be in English. Please prepare the physical poster, A0 size (84.1x118.9 cm, or 33.1x46.8 in), portrait layout.
- Poster competition presenters must stand by their poster during the presentation to answer queries from the judging panel. Otherwise, no score will be given by the judges.
- Time for each poster presentation: 7 minutes
- Presentation: 4 minutes
- Important: Please cover every aspect of the poster within 4 minutes. After this allotted time, the session chairperson will be obliged to end the presentation.
- Questions and answers: 3 minutes
- Presentation: 4 minutes
- Physical posters must be set up by 8:30 (GMT+8) on 5 October 2024 and removed before 16:00 (GMT+8) on 6 October 2024. Any unclaimed posters will be disposed of accordingly.
- The poster should include:
- Background & objectives
- Methods
- Results (include appropriately labelled tables and figures, if applicable)
- Discussion (focusing on strengths and weaknesses, pharmacy practice relevance/impact/innovation)
- Conclusion (clear take-home message[s] for the audience)
- Acknowledgement and declaration of funding, if applicable
- References (restrict to key references)
- Viewers should be able to read your poster content from a distance of one (1) metre. Make sure that your text is not too small to read, or so big that it overwhelms your poster.
- Award decisions from the judges will be considered final.
- The award presentation for winners of the best posters will be on 6 October 2024, 16:00 (GMT+8), at the Grand Ballroom.
Optional e-poster
- Poster competition presenters are also invited to prepare a 1-slide e-poster, which will be uploaded to the 33rd Singapore Pharmacy Congress website and made available via the onsite e-poster kiosks during the 2-day congress.
- Please prepare the 1-slide e-poster using PowerPoint. Ensure the layout is set to 16:9 landscape or portrait layout.
- Save your final 1-slide e-poster as a PDF file.
- The 1-slide e-poster must be emailed to secretariat.spc@mims.com (congress secretariat) by 30 August 2024.