Our experience indicates that as much planning and work are needed for a poster presentation as for an oral presentation. Poster abstracts, locations, and viewing times should be published in the general program along with information on invited or volunteered oral presentations. Those who have organized poster sessions can benefit from the participants' and the viewers' comments. Evaluation sheets and, perhaps, a suggestion box in the poster area, make it convenient for viewers to comment. Poster sessions provide a unique opportunity at meetings for participants who wish to have close contact with both a general cross section of attendees and with specialists in their particular field.
Poster sessions are beneficial to others as well as to the organization.
They are well worth the substantial effort required.