Deadline of submission extended to 31st July 2022
Guidelines for Abstracts:
- Maximum 300 words
- Please only use New Times Roman font in 12 point
- No graphic images, tables, graphs or columns should be submitted with your abstract.
Structure:
| Title (20 words) | Clearly explains the abstract |
| Background and Objectives | The context and major reason for carrying out the work |
| Methods or Description | Principles, methods or approaches used for the work |
| Results or Lessons Learned | Summary of main findings |
| Conclusions or Way Forward | What can be concluded from your work and way forward |
Theme:
THE ROLE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: RESEARCH. EDUCATION. CLINICAL CARE.
State the subtheme your abstract falls under:
- Clinical Simulation
- Critical Care
- Disaster Medicine
- Emergency Medicine Education and Training
- Emergency Medical Services/ Pre-hospital medicine
- Environmental/ Wilderness Medicine
- Geriatric Emergencies
- Infectious Diseases including COVID-19
- Global health and one health
- Medical Emergencies (Neurological, Cardiovascular)
- Trauma and Orthopedic Emergencies including wound management
- Paediatric Emergencies
- Resuscitation
- Surgical Emergencies
- Ultrasonography
- Public Health
- Administration and Management of Emergency Medical Service
- Battlefield/Combat/Deployed Medicine
- Neglected Tropical diseases
- Other Free Papers
General Information
1. The conference language is English, and all abstracts and presentations must be made in English.
2. An abstract must be submitted online for each proposed presentation.
3. The abstract will be reproduced in the conference booklet or app and made available on the AfCEM22 website as submitted by the author. It is the responsibility of authors to submit a correct abstract.
4. Authors are requested to make slide presentations available for publication on the conference website. Abstracts must reflect at least one of the symposium sub-themes.
Sub-Themes:
- Clinical Simulation
- Critical Care
- Disaster Medicine
- Emergency Medicine Education and Training
- Emergency Medical Services/ Pre-hospital medicine
- Environmental/ Wilderness Medicine
- Geriatric Emergencies
- Infectious Diseases including COVID-19
- Global health and one health
- Medical Emergencies (Neurological, Cardiovascular)
- Trauma and Orthopedic Emergencies including wound management
- Paediatric Emergencies
- Resuscitation
- Surgical Emergencies
- Ultrasonography
- Public Health
- Administration and Management of Emergency Medical Service
- Battlefield/Combat/Deployed Medicine
- Neglected Tropical diseases
- Other Free Papers
5. All correspondence will be with the person who submits the abstract online, including notification of the outcome. This person is responsible for informing other authors on the status of the abstract.
6. Authors are responsible for obtaining all copyright permissions for material included in their abstracts and presentations.
7. The schedule of presentations will be determined by the Conference Organising Committee to ensure the best fit with the overall program. Abstracts in related areas will be grouped together for presentation.
8. A PowerPoint presentation will be the only resource available for platform presentations.
9. Decisions of the Conference Organizing Committee on abstracts are final.
Submission guidelines
Abstract submission must be made electronically. Correspondences will be with the person who submits the abstract online.
Submissions should include the following:
| Title (20 words) | Clearly explains the abstract |
| Background and Objectives | The context and major reason for carrying out the work |
| Methods or Description | Principles, methods or approaches used for the work |
| Results or Lessons Learned | Summary of main findings |
| Conclusions or Way Forward | What can be concluded from your work and way forward |
Presentation formats
The Scientific Committee solicits abstracts for presentation, in English, in one of the following formats:
Selection Criteria
Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Conference Organising Committee and volunteers. All the abstracts are reviewed by 2 blinded reviewers. Other principles used in selecting the abstracts for presentation.
• The abstract addresses at least one of the subthemes of the conference.
• The content of the abstract is clear and logical.
Abstract review criteria:
Consent, permissions, and copyright
In submitting an abstract please confirm that:
• You accept responsibility for the accuracy of the submitted abstract and that it will be published exactly as submitted.
• All co-authors are aware of and agree to the content of the abstract and support the data presented.
• You accept responsibility as the contact person for all correspondence about the abstract and share information with all authors about its status.
• You have secured any copyright/permissions clearance required relating to any previous presentations, equipment or other material for inclusion in the conference and conference publications.
• For all studies involving human participants or animal subjects, permission has been obtained from the relevant regulatory authority and properly informed consent is given where appropriate.
• The work is original, except for extracts from copyrighted works used with permission from the copyright holders, and it does not infringe upon any copyright, proprietary, or personal right of any third party.
• You have identified any potential conflicts of interest.
