This national meeting is a great opportunity to share, learn and present your work, therefore we are delighted to invite you to submit your research abstracts/case reports/quality improvement reports (QIPs) on any topic surrounding Adult General Internal Medicine. 

The deadline for submissions is Friday, 4September with confirmation if submissions are successful by Friday, 18 September. This year, all shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their research abstracts and case reports to a judging panel via Zoom on Friday, 2 October. Following these online presentations, the panel will select 3 finalists, who will go on to present their work to the audience at the W.M.P.A. Generalism:  The Future of Modern Medicine Meeting in Wolverhampton on Friday, 16 October. After the finalist presentations, attendees at the meeting will vote to determine the overall winner.

Abstracts should include a title, authors (presenter underlined), name of the institution worked at when the work was done, postal address and e-mail contact. They should be in a Word format and a font size of 12 is preferred. Please see the sample abstracts below.

For those who aren’t selected for presentation, you will have your chance to showcase a poster presentation with the topic.

Submission criteria:

Any figure/table provided must be submitted in monochrome.

Keep any figure/table submitted as simple as possible for optimal reproduction. Figures will be sized to fit a single column so complex images with lots of detail are discouraged.

Format

Abstract length must not exceed 3,000 characters (including spaces). This includes the title and figure/table

The title is limited to 20 words and must clearly indicate the content of the abstract

Include a title, authors (presenter underlined), name of the institution worked at when the work was done, postal address and e-mail contact. They should be in a Word format and a font size of 12

Structure for Research and QIPs:

Introduction: 1-2 sentences that clearly indicate the scientific question of the study and its clinical (or other) importance.

Methods: sufficient information to be able to understand the experimental design, the analytical techniques and the statistics used in the study.

Results: objective data answering the scientific question(s).

Conclusions: only conclusions directly supported by the results, along with implications for clinical practice, avoiding speculation and over-generalisation.

Figures and Tables:

Only one figure or table may be submitted

Text in these is included in the abstract character limit and may therefore reduce the number of characters considerably

The figure legend/table title should appear in the abstract text rather than as part of the figure or table

The figure/table should be cited in the abstract as Figure 1 / Table 1 (whichever is relevant)

Images and graphics must adhere to the following criteria: 

Width: min 83mmFile size: min 35 KB/max 1000 KBDPI: min 300