Poster Session

Entering a Poster

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.

Eligibility: Open to Family Medicine Faculty, Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students interested in Family Medicine in the state of New Mexico

Submission Deadline: Monday, November 20, 2023

Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Submission guidelines: Applicants will submit either an abstract or short write-up of their project in the following format: (all 2000-character limit)

1. For Works-In-Progress:
   • Please briefly describe your project, subjects, expected outcomes, and why this is relevant to Family Medicine.
2. For Completed Research Projects:
   • Purpose/Background: Describe the issue addressed and any relevant background information
   • Methods: Describe the project, participants, setting, interventions, measures, outcomes, and analysesResults: Principal findings
   • Conclusions/Discussion
3. For clinical vignettes
   • Case Presentation: Please briefly describe your clinical case
   • Discussion: Why is this case important, what did you learn? Why is it relevant to Family Medicine?
   • Conclusion: What are your take home points and how can this case be used to change future clinical practice?

How to submit:

Go to the online submission form or copy and paste the following link in to your browser:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdp8KgaZtTSxSJiKb7swIIfGErx8W_ZGbyTpSEG6YpBJNadzw/viewform

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

Reviewing Posters

Thank you for your consideration and we anticipate this will take between 1-3 hours of your time depending on total number of reviewers and submissions.

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 process.

Submission guidelines: Applicants will submit either an abstract or short write-up of their project in the following format: (all 2000 character limit)

1. For Work In Progress: Please briefly describe your project, subjects, expected outcomes, and why this is relevant to Family Medicine.
2. For Completed Research Projects: Include Purpose/Background, Methods, and Conclusions/Discussion
3. For clinical vignettes: Include Case Presentation, Discussion, Conclusion

Reviewer process: Each submission will be de-identified and sent to up to 3 reviewers for blinded review. Each submission will be graded on a scale of 1-5 (5 highest) in the following areas (comments are optional but can help final acceptance determination):

1. Relevance to Family Medicine
2. Originality of topic
3. Organization of topic
4. Overall Quality
5. REJECT submission yes/no (comments required if yes)

All submissions will be ranked by total score (ie: 3 reviewers scored all 5 points in 5 categories = maximum of 60 points). Submissions will be accepted based on total number of available spots at conference (no anticipated space limit in 2024). 

Timeline for project:

• November 20, 2023: Deadline for submissions
• November 25, 2023: Poster abstracts distributed to reviewers
• December 08, 2023: Deadline for reviewer comments
• December 20, 2023: Notification to students and residents of poster acceptance
• February 24, 2024: Poster Presentations NMAFP Winter Refresher 

Questions? Email Dr. Alicia Gonzales,  Alicia.gonzales.md@gmil.com