This competition is designed to advance the Critical Care SCN's long-term research goals,
1. To increase capacity for scientific work within the Alberta critical care community,
2. To enhance the culture of science and innovation within the Alberta critical care community,
3. To improve the health and health care delivered to critically ill patients through knowledge creation and knowledge translation.
Details of the Competition:
Deadline: December 5, 2017
Eligible Topics: Scientific work addressing biomedical, clinical, health services, population health, quality improvement or education questions.
Eligible Trainees: Trainees enrolled in clinical (e.g., residents, fellows), undergraduate (e.g., summer students, honours thesis projects), graduate (e.g., MSc, PhD) or post-graduate (e.g., postdoctoral fellows, clinical scholars) training programs AND members or supervised by members of the Alberta Society of Intensive Care Medicine or the Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network.
Instructions: Maximum one page abstract with minimum of 1cm margins & 12 font text. Abstracts must conform to the following organization.
Background: should describe the context and importance of the study and state the objective(s) of the study.
Methods: should include a description of the methods used including study design, setting, population, measures, and analytic procedures.
Results: should describe the results in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. Tabular or graphic results are acceptable. It is not satisfactory to state, "The results will be discussed" or "Other data will be presented".
Conclusions: should state the implications of the findings for clinical practice, research, education, or policy.
Submission: Submit abstracts as MS Word or PDF documents in a single email sent to Christiane Job McIntosh, Acting Assistant Scientific Director, Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network at christiane.jobmcintosh@albertahealthservices.ca
Oral Presentation Details
Notification of Presentation: Abstracts will be adjudicated by a scientific committee and the top ranked abstracts selected for presentation. Trainees will be notified December 19, 2017.
Presentation Date: Morning of January 20, 2018
Presentation Format: 10 minute presentation followed by 2 minutes for questions.
Awards: $500 award will be presented for the top trainee presentation.
Acknowledgements: This competition has been sponsored by the Alberta Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services.
Competition Policies: There will be one winner. The $500 could be used to cover the costs of attending the meeting (if the trainee has not had it covered another way) or to cover the costs of any other academic pursuit related to critical care (ideally related to the actual abstract -