Joint AACOM-AODME Annual Meeting “Innovation: Spanning the Osteopathic Medical Education Continuum” April 9-12, 2008 Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark

2008 Call for Presentations and Posters

Full-session and brief presentation proposals are now complete. Poster proposals will be due on November 8.

The unique program development for our 2008 Annual Meeting, co-sponsored with AODME, is reflected in this call for proposals.

The 2008 Annual Meeting will focus on issues that impact both undergraduate and graduate osteopathic medical education. Program sessions will be of three types:

1. AACOM/AODME co-planned/shared sessions,
2. AODME planned sessions and
3. AACOM sessions made up of peer-selected presentations from the Call for Proposals.

Both organizations have agreed that all sessions will be open to any attendee.

In addition, there will be a co-sponsored poster session. The posters will be presented initially at the welcome reception on Wednesday evening and remain in a spacious area where vendors also will be located and breaks will be held. AACOM will use AODME's method of making two separate awards to outstanding posters, by having the peer reviewers select the one best poster based on the proposal abstract and using attendee feedback to identify a viewer's award. The peer reviewers' award tends to encourage high-quality abstracts, while the viewers' award focuses on the quality of the finished poster and encourages more active involvement by attendees.

Therefore, this call for AACOM proposals involves two deadlines, each followed by a peer-review process. Full-session and brief presentation proposals will be due on September 28 and poster proposals will be due on November 8.

AACOM's Conference Planning Committee invites submission of Presentations and Posters for the 2008 AACOM Annual Meeting in one of the following content areas, with emphasis on issues that impact the full continuum of education:

Research in OME		Integration of OPP
Faculty/Professional Development		Developing Core Competencies
Learning/Curriculum/Assessment		Information/Instructional Technology
Simulation in Medical Education		Recruitment/Admissions
Marketing and Communications		Student Career Counseling
Leadership		Student Services/Financial Aid

Proposal Priorities for the 2008 Annual Meeting:

• New models of, and linkages for, coordination across the educational continuum
• New approaches to significant issues that impact the full continuum of OME
• Utilization of participant involvement formats
• Participant outcomes/take-home products

General Instructions:

1. All respondents must be available to present during all dates of the conference. Sessions will be scheduled to maximize attendee choices.
2. Presenters are limited to a maximum of two submissions, although it is unlikely that more than one will be selected.
3. Electronic acknowledgment of receipt of submissions will be e-mailed to the lead presenter after the proposal is received. Electronic notification of the final status of each proposal will be sent to the lead presenter by a) October 19 for session proposals, both full session and brief presentation (which will be combined into a full session) and by b) December 14 for poster proposals.
4. No honorarium, travel expense reimbursement or registration fee reduction will be provided for any presenter submitting through the call for presentations.
5. Presenters may not directly market products or services through either sessions or posters. Formats such as exhibit space and literature displays are available for medical education products and services. If you are interested in this opportunity, visit AACOM's exhibits and sponsorship opportunities web page, or call Beth Martino at 301-968-4189.
6. Every attempt will be made to determine and support your A/V needs. One meeting room will be provided for each presentation with a data projector. You will know in advance the maximum seating capacity of the room you will be assigned. Handouts are the responsibility of the presenter. Copying services are available at the hotel and at a nearby Kinkos.

Formats

Participants may submit proposals in the following three categories (use the pull-down menu at the bottom of this page to complete a specific form for electronically submitting a proposal in each category):

1. Full Session Presentations
   as a workshop, lecture or panel, for sessions lasting 60 or 90 minutes.
2. Brief Presentations
   lasting not more than 15 minutes, including time for questions (time limit strictly enforced). Several Brief Presentations will be grouped to form a single session. Given the limited timeframe for this category, there should be no more than two presenters for submissions in this category.
3. Posters
   Specific requirements for posters.

Because a limited number of session proposals can be accepted, authors with unaccepted proposals will have the opportunity to resubmit their proposal as a poster by the later deadline.

Note: To allow for distribution of a conference ‘educational book' that includes speaker presentations at the April meeting, session presenters will be expected to submit their presentation electronically in early March.

Evaluation Criteria

At least two reviewers will read each submission. Reviewers will include at least one expert in the field being presented: for example, each proposal regarding basic science education will be reviewed by at least one basic science educator as well as by members of the planning committees.

Timeline

Submission deadline for full or brief session proposals is September 28, 2007 (with notification of status by October 19), and all submissions must be made using AACOM's on-line submission process. (Before submitting your proposal, have it ready in another application such as Microsoft Word, so you can save it before cutting and pasting the copy into the screens.) Submission deadline for poster proposals is November 8, 2007 (with notification of status by December 14).

Questions? Please contact:

Linda Heun <meded@aacom.org>
5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite 310
Chevy Chase MD 20815

Phone: 301-968-4143
Fax: 301-968-4101