Poster Session

You are invited to submit a poster on a scholarly project for the 2025 NMAFP Winter Refresher Conference on February 22, 2025 from 4:45-6:45pm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Please note, you do not need to register for the conference in order to participate in the poster session.

Poster subjects must be relevant to Family Medicine and can include clinical research, curriculum development, quality improvement/patient safety, community outreach/population health, or clinical vignettes. May include completed projects or those still in progress.

How to submit:

Visit the online submission form by clicking here or coping and pasting the following link into your browser: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdp8KgaZtTSxSJiKb7swIIfGErx8W_ZGbyTpSEG6YpBJNadzw/viewform

Eligibility:

Open to Family Medicine Faculty, Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students interested in Family Medicine in NM.

Submission Deadline:

Monday, November 18, 2024

Notification of acceptance:

First Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Wednesday, December 18, 2024. Accepted abstracts will be presented in person. One easel will be provided at the meeting as well as poster board measuring 36" x 48”. Poster size should not exceed this. All presenters are invited to attend the entire NMAFP Winter Refresher Meeting (though this is not required). Additional details regarding set up of posters and judging will be provided in acceptance email.

Submission Categories:

Clinical Vignettes:

A clinical vignette is a report of one or more cases that illustrates a new disease entity or a prominent or unusual clinical feature of an established disease, highlights an area of clinical controversy in medicine, or illustrates a unique patient safety issue. It may include a summary of pertinent patient history, physical findings, laboratory data, or management description. It should be clear from the discussion portion of the abstract why the vignette is most important to family medicine physicians. 

Research:

Submissions can report clinical research, basic science research, or a systematic review of a clinical problem in family medicine. Research abstracts concerned with the highlighted topic areas above, as well as efficiency, cost, or method of health care delivery methods and medical decision-making are also encouraged. 

Innovations:

Authors who wish to describe an innovative program in family medicine are encouraged to submit to this category. Innovations will primarily be descriptive, but they may also include preliminary data. 

abstract guidelines:

Length: Abstracts must not exceed 3000 characters (including spaces). Each table and graph will count as 200 characters.

Innovations:

1. Project Title
2. Authors (see authorship section below for details on how to organize author names)
3. describe your project
4. Explain which population or subjects you are studying, include whether you will be applying for an IRB approval
5. What is your hypothesis or expected outcomes
6. How is this relevant to Family Medicine?

Research:

1. Project Title
2. Authors (see authorship section below for details on how to organize author names)
3. Purpose/Background: Describe the issue addressed and any relevant background information
4. Methods: Describe the project, participants, setting, interventions, measures, outcomes, and analyses
5. Results: Principal findings
6. Conclusions/Discussion

For clinical vignettes:

1. Project Title
2. Authors (see authorship section below for details on how to organize author names)
3. Case Presentation: Please briefly describe your clinical case
4. Discussion: Why is this case important, what did you learn? Why is it relevant to Family Medicine?
5. Conclusion: What are your take home points and how can this case be used to change future clinical practice?

Additional guidelines 

For further abstract guideline submission, please proceed to the "submission form" linked above.

Questions?

Email Dr. Alicia Gonzales at: Alicia.gonzales.md@gmail.com