To get your institution's posters published on Cureus, start with a Cureus Channel. Channels are the pathway that makes poster publishing available to your organization's authors, faculty, residents, and students.
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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:
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.
Once a meeting ends, posters can be hard to find again. They may be saved on a laptop, shared once during a session, or remembered only by the people who attended it. 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:
For organizations and institutions, published posters can also showcase the range of research, education, and clinical improvement work happening within their community.
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. Authors don’t publish posters directly to Cureus as standalone submissions. Instead, posters are connected to a specific meeting hosted within their organization or institution's Channel.
Grouping posters by meeting keeps them organized by the academic community, meeting, or institutional program they are associated with.
Meetings hosted on a Channel 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. The site navigation includes Posters alongside other published content such as Articles, Abstracts, Collections, and Channels.
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 doesn’t 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.
Posters are an important part of medical scholarship, but their impact shouldn’t 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.
A: Channel Curators or Screeners check submissions for eligibility and scope before they're posted to the organization's Channel. This is separate from Cureus's formal peer review process, which only applies to the five accepted article types.
A: No. Cureus formally peer-reviews five article types: original articles, review articles, case reports, technical reports, and editorials. Posters aren't one of these types, so they don't go through that same two-reviewer process.
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