Orals & Posters
In the submission form, you can select your work to be considered for (1) either a poster or an oral presentation, or (2) a poster presentation only. Oral and poster presentation abstracts relate to communication in healthcare.
Abstracts in this category require results. Although these results can be preliminary, they must be adequately developed to demonstrate methodological rigour, emerging findings and the relevance of the work. Both ‘Teaching/Assessment’ and ‘Policy and practice’ abstracts should present evaluation data, where available, to indicate the effectiveness or feasibility of the intervention. Work that does not yet have results, or only very limited preliminary results, may be better suited to the Work in Progress (WIP) category, which is specifically designed for early-career researchers seeking formative feedback.
If your abstract gets accepted for an oral presentation, you will be asked to prepare a 9-minute presentation, followed by 4 minutes of discussion.
If your abstract is accepted for a poster presentation, you will be asked to prepare a poster. Both online and in-person poster presenters will be invited to do a 1-minute poster-pitch during the conference for the poster awards.
The review criteria includes:
- Relevance and importance for healthcare communication
- Innovative in healthcare communication teaching or policy/practice
- Clarity of the objectives
- Appropriateness, quality and clear description of methods
- Clear description of findings
- Discussion of the meaning of the findings for communication in healthcare.
- Overall clarity and quality of the abstract.
Fields for completion within the electronic form:
The electronic form will contain 5 areas:
Title: A title of 100 characters (including spaces) or less
Author(s) details: For all authors-title, first and last names, email address, department and institution. Indication of who will be the presenting author.
Presentation Type: Oral or Poster Presentation or Poster Presentation Only
Topic: You will be asked to select 1 from a list of submission topics, that best describe your work.
Body: The body of the structured abstract should be limited to 300 words (submissions exceeding this word limit will not be processed) and should follow the categories, directions, and word limits detailed in the instructions based on category of abstract. Please ensure you have read and follow these instructions as they vary based on the category type of each abstract.
Methods: Design, approach, and analysis/assessment methods. For research projects, please include descriptions of participants, method of data collection and analysis. For teaching projects, please include descriptions of developmental approach, instructional, evaluation, or assessment methods. For policy projects, please include description of policy or practice innovation, implementation strategy, guideline development or panel study.
Findings: Include a summary of the main findings and results. Note that it is not acceptable to refer to ‘data/evaluation will be discussed’.
Discussion: Discussion of the (possible) innovative contribution to, or implications for, communication in healthcare.
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