Brief Oral Presentation
Brief Oral Presentation (BOP) is an oral presentation lasting 10 minutes. There will be 90 minute BOP sessions consisting of 6-8 individual presentations. A BOP can be a presentation of a new research finding or a concise presentation of a clinical case or problem.
There are two ways of submitting a BOP session. You can organise a whole BOP session with 6-8 presenters, or you can submit an individual BOP. The Programme Committee will organise individual BOP presentations to BOP sessions.
Submissions for a whole BOP session will be a two-part process:
Part 1: Overall abstract with description of BOP content, title of BOP and list of suggested speakers is required to be submitted by the symposium organiser during the call for abstracts.
Part 2: Following the submission of the main BOP abstract, authors are required to submit their abstracts individually for each presentation within the BOP. Each individual author will be required to list the name of the BOP the abstract relates to. All individual BOP presenter abstracts need to be submitted by the deadline.
Poster Presentation
Poster presentations are best suited to reporting of results from a single empirical investigation or presentations of a clinical, educational, training, evaluation, or intervention programme.
Posters are displayed for half a day. The author(s) must be present at the poster at a scheduled two-hour period in order to discuss the poster with participants.
Poster Workshop
Poster workshops consist of regular posters that are organized around specific themes. Poster workshops can contain eight to ten posters.
Poster workshops are assembled in one of two ways:
- A group of investigations from diverse laboratories/clinics/countries can propose a thematic poster workshop. Overall abstract, with description of workshop theme is required to be submitted by the workshop organiser during the call for abstracts. All poster workshop primary authors should submit their own abstract and indicate the title of the poster workshop.
- The Program Committee may assemble a group of abstracts that share a common theme and assign them to a separate poster workshop. In this case, the moderator for the poster workshop session will be selected by the Program Committee.
Workshop
Workshops are optimal for exchanging information about a particular body of knowledge, clinical treatment, teaching technique, assessment or research instrument, or methodology. A workshop should include a small number of presenters (generally no more than two or three) and the emphasis should be on disseminating specific knowledge. Because workshops are tutorial in nature, active discussion between audience and presenters should take place throughout the session.
Workshops are scheduled for 60 minutes.
Symposium
Symposia are scheduled for 90 minutes, including 3-5 oral presentations on a related topic (clinical issue, research finding, policy issue) and time for active discussion with the audience. Symposia that feature active panel debate about a topic, or present various perspectives about a topic, are preferred to those in which speakers all report from the same perspective. It is important to recognise the interdisciplinary and international nature of WAIMH when organising a symposium. Preference will also be given to symposia that report longitudinal outcomes of 0-3 clinical and scientific studies.
Submissions for symposia will be a two-part process:
Part 1: Overall abstract with description of symposia content, title of symposia and list of suggested speakers is required to be submitted by the symposium organiser during the call for abstracts.
Part 2: Following the submission of the main symposia abstract, authors are required to submit their abstracts individually for each presentation within the symposia. Each individual author will be required to list the name of the symposia the abstract relates to. All individual symposia presenter abstracts need to be submitted by the deadline.
Video presentation
Video presentations are used to demonstrate or teach about new clinical or research evaluation and treatment tools and methods. These presentations run once during the time of parallel sessions, and are restricted to 45 minutes. Video presentation could include one of a small number of presenters (generally no more than two).
Presenters must be available at the scheduled time.