“Share your excellence in PT Practice or research” – PABC Practice Forum, April 27, 2013.
Deadline for submission – April 1, 2013. Authors will be informed by April 8th if the poster will be accepted for presentation.
Engage your peers by presenting a poster at this year’s expanded poster session, scheduled from 4:30 – 5:30 PM, April 27, 2013, Marriott Hotel, Vancouver. This year we welcome PT-related, clinical contributions from all individuals and organizations affiliated with PABC (in addition to research submissions). Please designate which of the following submission types you would like to make:
- CASE STUDY SUBMISSIONS. Case studies may highlight a novel technique or area of practice, an unusual or interesting clinical finding or scenario, a unique or particularly successful approach, or a “practice pearl” of wisdom.
- PROGRAMS. Therapists, educators or administrators who work in, or have developed, a rehabilitation or education program may present its features and/or outcomes of interest to PABC members.
- ACADEMIC RESEARCH PAPER OR WORK IN PROGRESS. This submission format is intended to provide PABC members who are graduate students (or grad students supervised by PABC members) an opportunity to present their original research.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the poster session organizers if you have any inquiries about the event or the submission process (Alex Scott, ascott@interchange.ubc.ca, or Darlene Reid, darlene.reid@ ubc.ca). Potential presenters should submit a summary or abstract of their poster (1 page maximum, 12 point font, 1.5 spacing) directly by e-mail to either of the above individuals. The summary should be structured using one of the below mentioned formats and related headings. It should provide enough background for the reader to assess the relevance to PT.
The summary should be structured using one of the format outlines shown below.
1) CASE STUDY
• Contact Author, email and preferred contact phone number
• Authors, title, institutions
• Introduction: Provide one or two sentences to describe the rationale, contextual issues, and unique features of your case.
• Case presentation: This section usually includes several sentences and/or a table of data that describes the history and results of relevant examinations or text results. The working diagnosis and clinical problems that need to be addressed should be stated. How this case differs from the usual presentation and care should be described.
• PT Management and Outcomes: Describe the salient features related to difficulties and successful progression of your patient’s response to management. Be sure to describe objective outcomes and communications with team members if relevant.
• Discussion: Synthesize your interpretation of the key learning points from the case. What did you learn from the unique features of this case and how would you change your practice in order to address future cases that might be similar.
2) PROGRAM
• Contact Author, email and preferred contact phone number
• Authors, title, institutions
• Introduction: Provide one or two sentences to describe the rationale, contextual issues, and need for the program.
• Format Program: Include details of the characteristics of the participants and the intervention. For the participant, you might provide the diagnoses, age range, and other feature of patients that meets the inclusion or exclusion criteria of your program. Describe the content and delivery of the assessment and intervention(s). Description of the health care personnel involved in the program and the environment might also be informative.
• Program Evaluation: Describe the number of participants that go through your program on a monthly or annual basis, outcomes that indicate successful progression, adverse events. Cost per patient may also be included.
• Successes of Program: Describe in one or two sentences how your program has made an impact and why its continuation is essential
3) RESEARCH PROPOSAL OR STUDY
• Contact author, email and preferred contact phone number
• Authors, title, institutions
• Introduction: Provide one or two sentences that describe the rationale for the study
• Relevance to PT: Describe in one or two sentences why this is important to the field of physical therapy
• Purpose/Hypothesis: State one or both of these
• Methods: Summarize your study sample and key methods performed or proposed.
• Results or Anticipated Outcome: Summarize your key results or anticipated results if your poster describes a proposal
• Discussion: Summarize the unique impact that your study outcomes demonstrated or will demonstrate.
IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE
Due to limited space in our assigned room at the Marriott, traditional large poster formats will not be possible. The poster must be a maximum of 3’ in width and 4’ in length. If your poster exceeds these dimensions, we cannot guarantee that there will be space to display it. Please come and put your poster up at the start of the day so that it can be viewed during breaks, and plan to be there in person at 4:30 to present and answer questions. Prizes will be offered for the top two posters in each category!