CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 138th APHA Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2010)Medical CareSubmission Deadline: Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
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The Medical Care Section invites you to submit abstracts for the APHA 138th Annual Meeting, Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative, to be held November 6 – 10, 2010 in Denver, CO. Abstracts are welcome that address this theme, as well as a broad range of topics of interest to the Medical Care Section relating to the organization, delivery and financing of health and medical care services, as well as health care reform/universal access to care efforts at the national, state, and local levels. When you are submitting your abstract, you will be asked to submit it to one of these topics:
Please note that the Medical Care Section requires a 400 word abstract, providing more detail about your research than the usual 250-word abstract. Abstracts will be judged on the following criteria: general interest and timeliness; clarity of ideas, writing, and presentation; methodological rigor; study quality; completeness of the work; validity of conclusions; and relevance for APHA Medical Care Section priorities. Both oral and poster sessions will be sponsored by the Medical Care Section. Please indicate your preference to present your paper as an oral or poster session in the appropriate place on the electronic abstract form. All contributed sessions abstracts should be submitted to one of the substantive topics listed above. STUDENT PAPER AWARD COMPETITION As part of the call for abstracts described above, the Medical Care section is accepting abstract submissions for a highly competitive student research oral session competition. The five most highly rated student papers will be accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting. These five finalists will compete to receive an award, which will be presented at the Annual Meeting. Student submissions should also be abstracts of 400 words on a topic related to one of the substantive topics listed above. However, all student abstracts MUST BE submitted to the "Student Submission" session, no matter which substantive topic is being addressed. Please note that in order to be eligible for the student competition, authors MUST also submit a hard copy letter from their faculty advisor on university letterhead attesting to the author's student status. This letter must be mailed directly to Dr. José Josué Hernández, Medical Care Section Program Chair (address below) and must be postmarked by the abstract deadline. INVITED/SOLICITED SESSIONS We welcome proposals for invited/solicited sessions (90 minutes in length). In addition to the electronic online submission of an individual abstract for EACH of the 4-5 papers to be included in a Session, a one-page overview of the proposed Session MUST be submitted directly to Dr. José J. Hernández (jose.hernandez38@upr.edu), the Medical Care Section Scientific Program Committee Chair. This one-page overview should include: 1. Overall session title; 2. Name of the lead facilitator and the contact person for the Session; 3. Brief overview of the rationale for the Session; and 4. List (in presentation order) of the individual abstracts to be organized into this Session, complete with titles, presenters' names, and time allocated for each presentation and any discussion periods. Please note that each individual abstract to be included in a Session must be submitted through the APHA electronic abstract submission process. In the "Comments to Organizers" box for each abstract submission, the authors should indicate that the abstract is to be considered as part of the Proposed Session (indicated by Session title). The website for invited/solicited abstracts submissions opens on March 26, 2010. CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses and health educators at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials. For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter, panelist, discussant, and/or faculty must provide: 1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names 2) at least one MEASURABLE SINGLE objective (to understand or to learn are not measurable objectives and compound objectives are not acceptable). Use ONLY the following Measurable Action Verbs: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List. 3) A signed Conflict of Interest form with a relevant qualification statement Example of Acceptable Qualification Statement: I am qualified to present because I oversee programs such as disease prevention, environmental and consumer safety and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. I also served as an associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Clinical infectious Disease. 4) All continuing education learning content must be of sound science or professional practice and serve to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills and professional competence of the health professional. Learning content should be evidence-based if available. A list of over 30 areas will be provided online for you to choose from. You will be asked to choose at least one or up to 6 areas that your presentation will address. Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy. Contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education. For program questions, contact the program planner listed below. |
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