Guidelines for abstract submission The program committee reserves the right to assign papers either for oral or poster presentations. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program (book of abstracts); please ensure that you edit your submission as no corrections will be made. An abstract of maximum 250 words is requested for papers and posters, maximum 500 words for symposia submissions. Identify 2-3 learning objectives for participants at your presentation. Symposia: A symposium is a 60-75 minute session with 3 or more authors presenting papers on a common theme or issue. Please list each paper in the space provided and provide an overall summary of the symposium. The symposium chair will be the main contact person for the conference organizers. Additional authors will not be contacted. Paper: Individual papers will be allotted approximately 15 minute time slots and will be grouped with similar presentations on the same topic. Presenters will be responsible for providing handouts on their presentation to participants. Poster: Poster presenters must be present at their allotted Poster Session. Poster session is 60-75 minutes. It is recommended that handouts are available at the poster session. Size of Poster board - to be announced. Please note: Submission system does not support inclusion of tables. Please do not use all capitals or other formatted text. IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: If you do not receive a Proposal Submission Received message and a proposal ID number immediately after submitting, then we have not received your submission. Please try again or email tmoropito@iafmhs.org for assistance. If you are submitting a paper that is part of a symposium, please do not enter it separately as a paper, only include with symposium submission. Items marked with an asterisk * are required fields.
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