Abstracts

Educational Scholarship & Quality Improvement Poster Abstracts | Submission CLOSED

Notifications on acceptance will be sent out on February 22. 

APPD Poster Sessions are scheduled on Tuesday, May 17 from 5:30-6:30pm Pacific and Wednesday, May 18 from 4:30-6:00pm Eastern.

Guideline Submissions

Abstract Title
The title should be brief, but long enough to clearly identify the nature of the study. Use uppercase for the first letters of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Use lowercase for conjunctions, coordinating prepositions, and articles.

Abstract Body
The body of an abstract may not exceed 2,600 characters including spaces. Word count does not include the author information or title (only body). Abstracts must be entered single-spaced with no indents or bullets. Do not include the names of the authors in the body of the abstract. For best results enter the abstract as plain text and use the formatting and special character tools available within the program. Please check your abstract carefully for typographical errors, and grammatical errors such as misspellings and poor hyphenation. Such errors become glaringly obvious in the published abstract.

The body of the abstract should be organized as follows:

• A sentence stating the study's objectives.
• A brief description of methods.
• A summary of the results.
• A statement of conclusions. Do not state simply the "the results will be discussed."

Completeness of Data
The abstract should include all study outcome results. We strongly encourage data to be included with submission.

Graphs, Tables, Charts (Optional)
Published abstracts will not be reproduced in color, so any graphic must be legible and understandable when printed in black and white. Graphics, tables, charts cannot exceed 3.25 inches (or 8 cm in width) and must be submitted in .pdf format in one file. There is no height restriction on the graphic. Please submit 1 graph/chart per abstract (optional).

Abstract Topic Categories
Submitted abstracts should be related to the field of pediatric medical education. Original research should focus on medical education, curriculum, educational scholarship. Topic categories include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptations to Virtual Learning Environment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Faculty Development and Support
• Program Accreditation and Evaluation
• Programmatic Innovations
• Recruitment
• Support, Teaching and Remediation of Professionalism
• Trainee and Faculty Educational Scholarship
• Trainee Assessment and Remediation
• Trainee Education
• Wellbeing
• Workforce Issues

Abstract Confirmation
A confirmation of your submission including your abstract as it will appear if accepted will be sent to the email address belonging to the APPD account used to create the abstract. Please review the abstract to ensure its accuracy. If you do not receive a confirmation upon submission, please check your spam folder. If you still have not received a confirmation email, please contact info@appd.org.

The abstract review process utilizes a blind grading system and demographic information collected from the corresponding author will not be considered in the review process. Authors should be cautious in using institutional references in the body of the abstracts. Do not put author names or affiliations within the abstract title or the abstract body section. Abstract Notification: The Main Author of the submission will be notified of the Program Committee's decision.

Registration
Presenters of accepted abstracts are required to register for and attend the meeting. If the Main Author is not able to attend, a registered co-author may present.

Abstract Sample
View a past Highly-Rated Abstract

Enhanced Learning Sessions | Submission Deadline February 7 

We welcome submissions that include learning goals/objectives and agendas for 90-minute small to medium sized enhanced learning sessions. We encourage presenters to explore non-traditional, engaging, and innovative session formats that incorporate active learning, as well as that allow time for questions, answers, and dialogue between presenters and participants. Timely and important topics that are best addressed by expert panel discussion, flipped classroom, didactic presentations, or other formats will all be considered. Session topics with well written and well described educational goals and objectives and with well thought out agendas are sought for review.

Character Limit
Each submission should be a maximum of 2,600 characters long, including spaces. This is calculated from the length of the Title and Body. You will be able to check your character length at the bottom of the Submission Information page and in the Submission Information section of the Submission Overview page.

Topic Categories
Submissions should be related to the field of pediatric medical education. Topic categories include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptations to Virtual Learning Environment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Faculty Development and Support
• Program Accreditation and Evaluation
• Programmatic Innovations
• Recruitment
• Support, Teaching and Remediation of Professionalism
• Trainee and Faculty Educational Scholarship
• Trainee Assessment and Remediation
• Trainee Education
• Wellbeing
• Workforce Issues

All Caps versus Upper/Lower Case Lettering
Titles will automatically be entered by the submission site in all upper case lettering. However, descriptions, references, authors, and other submission information must be entered in upper and lower case letters. Please do not enter that information in all caps. All details published in our meeting program must be consistently formatted.

You may use a text editing program to write your submission such as Microsoft Word and paste the text into the submission text area, BUT it is strongly advised to review your content after pasting into the web form, especially when using special characters to make sure your browser did not misinterpret the pasted content. The text editor field has formatting and special character options available in a top menu.

Abbreviations
Standard abbreviations may be used, i.e. RBC, g, kg, mg, %, etc. Non-standard abbreviations must be explained when first presented and should be kept to a minimum.

Submission Confirmation
A confirmation of your submission will be sent to the email address belonging to the APPD account used to submit the proposal. Please review the submission to ensure its accuracy. If you do not receive a confirmation upon submission, please check your spam folder. If you still have not received a confirmation email, please contact info@appd.org.

Review
The submission review process utilizes a blind grading system and demographic information collected from the corresponding author will not be considered in the review process. Authors should be cautious in using institutional references in the body of the submission. Do not put author names or affiliations within the title or body section. The Main Author of the submission will be notified of the Program Committee's decision.

Registration
Presenters of accepted ELS proposals are required to register for and attend the meeting.

Prior Year Enhanced Learning Sessions

For reference, you may view last year’s Enhanced Learning Sessions.