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Chairpersons of medical conferences usually allow a central place in the program for poster exhibitions. Moderated poster presentations often take place during lunch breaks on the main conference days. These presentations compete only with the satellite symposia organized by the pharmaceutical industry. In contrast to the prominent positioning of poster exhibitions in conference programs, conference delegates’ interest in and attendance at poster presentations at national (and sometimes international) specialist medical conferences is occasionally rather modest. Who benefits from poster exhibitions? To whom are they useful? How might they be made more attractive? Should they even be organized at all? There are some studies relating to partial aspects of poster exhibitions at non-German specialist conferences, e.g., about the process of abstract selection for diverse conferences (1–11), electronic posters (12, 13), and the publication rate of conference contributions (14–20). Further studies have shed light on the motivation of authors to design a poster (21), redundant poster contributions (22, 23), or the time spent by conference delegates in studying a poster (24). This study aims to present systematically and prospectively the poster exhibition of a German specialist medical conference as a platform for presenting current research findings in terms of its acceptance and perceived value. The selection process for contributions and the poster awards, the scientific and personal benefits of the poster exhibition for its authors, chairpersons, and visitors were studied systematically. The number of participants at the individual poster presentations was documented and compared with the number of poster contributions on offer.