Publishing Medical Posters With Cureus

Medical posters are a familiar part of conferences, research days, grand rounds, residency programs, and institutional meetings. They give authors a concise, visual way to present research findings, clinical observations, quality improvement work, educational projects, and other scholarly activity.

But once a meeting ends, many posters are difficult to find again. They may be saved on a laptop, shared once during a session, or remembered only by the people who attended. Publishing posters online helps extend the life of that work.

Through Cureus, eligible authors can publish posters within designated meetings hosted by their organization or institution’s Cureus Channel.

What are medical posters?

Medical posters are visual summaries of scholarly work. They are often created for academic meetings, research symposia, departmental events, or specialty conferences.

A poster may summarize:

• A clinical case or case series
• Original research
• Quality improvement work
• Medical education projects
• Public health or health policy research
• Literature reviews or evidence summaries
• Institutional or departmental initiatives

Unlike a full manuscript, a poster is designed to communicate the most important parts of a project quickly. It typically includes the research question or objective, background, methods, results, conclusions, and key takeaways in a format that is easy to scan.

Why publish a poster?

Publishing a poster helps turn a meeting presentation into a more durable scholarly record.

For authors, this can be especially valuable because posters often represent months of work. Publishing them online can help make that work easier to share with colleagues, mentors, residency or fellowship programs, academic committees, and future collaborators.

Poster publication can also help authors:

• Preserve work presented at a meeting
• Share findings beyond the original event audience
• Build a visible record of scholarly activity
• Support academic, training, or professional development goals
• Make early-stage research easier to discover
• Highlight work from students, trainees, clinicians, and faculty

For organizations and institutions, published posters can also showcase the range of research, education, and clinical improvement work happening within their community.

Who can publish posters in Cureus?

Poster publication in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science is available only to members of Cureus Channels.

Cureus Channels are dedicated publishing spaces for organizations, institutions, societies, and other groups. Within a Channel, posters are published as part of a designated meeting. This means that authors do not publish posters directly to Cureus as standalone submissions. Instead, posters are connected to a specific meeting hosted within their organization or institution’s Channel.

This structure helps keep posters organized by the academic community, meeting, or institutional program they are associated with.

How Cureus poster publication works

If your organization or institution has a Cureus Channel, it may host meetings where eligible members can publish posters. These meetings provide a centralized place for poster content connected to a particular event, department, research day, or academic initiative.

Once published, posters can be browsed online and shared with others. You can explore published posters on Cureus here: Cureus has a public Posters browse page, and the site navigation includes Posters alongside other published content such as Articles, Abstracts, Collections, and Channels.

Interested in publishing a poster?

Start by checking whether your organization or institution has a Cureus Channel. Cureus lists Academic Channels as a browse option under Channels, along with resources such as the Cureus Channels Guide.

If your organization has a Channel, look for the relevant meeting or ask your Channel administrator how poster publication is handled. If your organization does not yet have a Channel, you may need to speak with your institution, department, society, or program leadership about whether a Cureus Channel is available or appropriate.

Make your poster easier to find, share, and preserve

Posters are an important part of medical scholarship, but their impact should not end when a meeting does. By publishing posters through Cureus Channels, eligible authors can help preserve their work, share it with a broader audience, and contribute to a searchable record of scholarly activity from their organization or institution.