2021 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM)

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & AWARDS

Abstracts are invited from consultant and trainee surgeons, laparoscopic theatre staff and industry. The ALSGBI operates a paperless electronic abstract submission through Oxford Abstracts. Submission of previously accepted/presented work is also welcomed.

Online submission is now open: if you are submitting a video for consideration, please ensure you submit an abstract online and also email the video via WeTransfer by 10:00 pm on Friday 8 October 2021 to jtreglohan@alsgbi.org

  • You will be notified on Friday 29 October 2021 if your submission has been successful.
  • Abstracts must consist of 5 paragraphs, making a total of 250 words maximum:
    • Aims (50 words max)
    • Methods (50 words max)
    • Results (50 words max)
    • Conclusion (50 words max)
    • Key Statement (50 words max)
  • Abstracts are to be submitted as text and tables ONLY (ie no figures, graphs or diagrams).
  • The text must fit within the abstract template and use size 11 Arial font.
  • No more than 5 authors should be listed.
  • The abstract is marked anonymously so the text should not refer to any institutional affiliation.
  • An abstract must be submitted online in order to be considered for oral presentation, a poster or video.
  • If your abstract is selected for poster presentation you must provide a pdf of your poster by Friday 12 November otherwise it WILL NOT be eligible for the 2021 ALSGBI Best Laparoscopic Poster Prize.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS (FREE PAPERS):

  • Those that have been selected for oral presentation (FP01-08) please note your timings in the abstract book.
  • All PowerPoint presentations were meant to be emailed to jtreglohan@alsgbi.org by 12 November 2021 and to date we have received only one presentation!
  • The winner of the best oral abstract will be presented with the 2021 David Dunn Medal and a cheque for £600, generously sponsored by the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES).
  • The announcement of the 2021 David Dunn Medal Prize winner will be made during the ALSGBI Awards Ceremony at 17:00 – 17:05 hours on Tuesday 7 December.
  • The winner must be a fully paid-up Trainee Surgeon or ALTS member of the ALSGBI to qualify for this prize.

GENERAL INFORMATION
POSTER EXHIBITION & PRESENTATIONS:

  • Poster pdfs will be uploaded to the Poster monitors which will be located in the bottom right hand corner of the exhibition.
  • Posters 1-15  will be displayed on Poster Monitor 1, 16-31 on Poster Monitor 2 and 32 – 47 on Poster Monitor 3.
  • Pdfs MUST BE PORTRAIT otherwise they will simply not fit!
  • Poster number 39 needs to be resized to a PORTRAIT pdf NOT landscape and emailed imminently otherwise it will not be included.
  • We are still waiting for poster pdfs from 20 and 31, these need to be emailed imminently otherwise they will not be included.
  •  At 12:30 hours on Monday 6 December please make sure you are seated in the Poster Monitor area (delegate seating) to answer any questions about your poster.
  • The top two posters selected will present a PowerPoint presentation about their poster in the Poster Session on Tuesday 7 December at 11:10 -11:20 hours.
  • The announcement of the 2021 ALSGBI Best Laparoscopic Poster Prize winner will be made during the ALSGBI Awards Ceremony at 17:00 – 17:05 hours on Tuesday 7 December.

VIDEO PRESENTATIONS:

  •  For those that have been selected for video presentation, your videos have all been sent off to the audio visual company and they will be responsible for playing them in   the  video session.
  •  The chairmen will ask the presenters questions at the end of their video and the video considered the best laparoscopic video will be awarded a cheque for £250.
  •  The announcement of the 2021 ALSGBI Best Laparoscopic Video Prize winner will be made during the ALSGBI Awards Ceremony at 17:00 – 17:05 hours on Tuesday 7   December.
  •  The winner must be a fully paid-up Trainee Surgeon or ALTS member of the ALSGBI to qualify for this prize.

AUDIO VISUAL INFORMATION:

All presentations must be compiled using PowerPoint with voiceover and an advance copy should be forwarded to jtreglohan@alsgbi.org by Friday 12 November.

All presenters of papers, videos and posters must register for the ASM by Friday 12 November 2021.

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