Work In Progress (WIP)

If your project is in early stages or still ongoing and you have limited or no results, you can still submit this work for a possible oral or poster presentation.  The WIP category is designed to provide students, trainees and junior faculty with the opportunity to present developing projects, pose questions and receive constructive feedback from the audience. WIP presenters are asked to prepare a 7 minute presentation which is followed by 8 minutes of structured  and focused feedback.  If you opt to qualify for a WIP presentation in the submission form, you will be asked to provide specific questions you would like addressed during this discussion.

In the submission form, you can select your work to be considered for (1) either a poster or an oral presentation or WIP presentation, or (2) a poster presentation only.   Please note that completed projects, or those presenting preliminary results intended primarily for dissemination rather than feedback, should be submitted to the standard oral/poster abstract category.

At the start of the presentation, each presenter will identify and explicitly state 1-3 discussion points he/she would like to focus on during the brief discussion at the end of the presentation. The presenters will also obtain confidential feedback from the session chair at the end of the session on his/her presentation skills.

This submission category will be limited to presenting authors who are students (undergraduate student, health professions students or graduate students), trainees (postdoctoral fellows, residents, etc) and early career faculty (within 5 years of their terminal degree).

All submissions must include description of presenter’s early career status (year of training and field as student, trainee etc. or field and years since completion of terminal degree). Also, without mentioning specific names or funding sources (in order to allow for blinded abstract review), please include description of if you are working with a mentor on this project and also whether you have either internal or external funding supporting this project.

Please note that due to limited number of available spaces for each submission category, the Planning and Scientific Committee may offer alternative spaces to good quality abstracts i.e. acceptance in another category other than the initial submission category.

The review criteria includes:

• Relevance and importance for healthcare communication research
• Innovative in healthcare communication research, teaching or policy/practice?
• Clarity of the objectives
• Appropriateness, quality and clear description of methods
• Clear description of preliminary findings
• Discussion of the potential meaning/implications. 
• 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:  Work In Progress (WIP)
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 450 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.

Background: Describe the relevance, context, and objective of the work. For research projects, please include main research questions, aims or hypotheses. For teaching projects, please include institutional context and educational objectives. For policy projects, please include a. clear problem statement and objective of the policy/practice innovation.

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.