5th ISHA Annual Scientific Meeting (2013)
Conditions for submitting an abstract
DEADLINE: May 15, 2013, midnight (CEST)
How to submit an abstract
Abstracts on the particular subjects can be submitted exclusively online: www.ishacongress.com Applications via fax, e-mail, etc. cannot be taken into consideration! Notifications about acceptance or refusal will be sent out during July 2013
Language
Abstracts can only be submitted and presented in English.
Size, content
The abstract is limited to 3.000 characters incl. spaces. Modifications of the abstracts that are already registered are possible until the submission deadline.
The following structure of the abstract is mandatory: Title, objectives, methods, results and conclusions.
Concerning the methods it has to be clear if it is a prospective or a retrospective study and how the data has been obtained. Statistical data have to be specified. The test execution of experimental studies has to be understandable. The described methodology of data entry and data evaluation of clinical papers must be traceable. The abstract has to contain all relevant data and figures. To assure an anonymous handling, it is not allowed to mention any names of the author or of the hospital or of the location of the hospital in the text/paper.
Rules & regulations
It is not allowed to submit the same abstract several times in different categories of the congress. The presenter must be listed first. The number of authors including the lecturer is limited to 6 people. The person, who is mentioned first, is responsible for the compliance with ethic regulations and the law on animal protection. The abstract text has to be written in a way that it is usable for printing/publishing. No more than 3 abstracts will be accepted for podium presentation from a single center.
Posters
Poster submissions are welcome via the abstract submission platform as well. The selection of the type of presentation (oral or poster) is done at the end of the abstract-submission process. The posters will be displayed at the congress either in hard copies or as eposters. Detailed information will be available as soon as possible. Probably a poster session is going to take place every day during the congress. During the poster session it is mandatory that at least one of the authors is present.
Presentation
The number of oral presentations per presenter is limited to 3. Oral presentations must be handed over on-site as a digital presentation on a CD-ROM or a USB data stick. Data projectors are available in all lecture halls. Individual notebooks cannot be installed. Exclusive presentation format is Microsoft Power Point (from version 97) for Windows. Please note incompatibilities between Apple-Macintosh and the operating system of Windows! Videos have to be stored in the delivered data files.
Publication
Abstracts accepted for podium presentation will be published in the Journal of Arthroscopy. The authors of any presented papers are not obligated to first submit the completed manuscripts to the Journal of Arthroscopy Results that have already been published or that have been lectured elsewhere cannot be submitted. All authors listed have to give their consent regarding the abstract text, publication in the abstract volume, the congress program as well as the publication on the congress website.
Registration
Please be aware that all congress participants including speakers need to register for the meeting. Please visit the website www.ishacongress.com and use the link „registration“. The early bird registration deadline is at the beginning of August. Detailed information will be available on the website. It is also recommended to make hotel reservation as soon as possible via en.hrs.de as there will be the Oktoberfest shortly before.
Awards
ISHA believes very strongly that the advancement of the field of hip arthroscopy begins with research. We also believe that this begins with young, bright individuals. To help promote this, ISHA confers two competitive awards during the Annual General Meeting. The Richard N. Villar Excellence in Clinical Science Award, and the ISHA Basic Science award will be awarded to the 2 best scientific presentations at the ISHA meeting. The requirements are that the research was performed by, and presentation made by, a person who did the research while in training as a resident or fellow. During abstract submission, the author needs to denote if the abstract should be considered for these awards. A panel of judges will score each presentation based on the quality of the research, the presentation, and the presenters responses to queries by the moderator and/or congress participants. Each award comes with an Award Certificate and Financial Award.