The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of free communication abstracts which can be presented in either of the following formats:
Abstract submissions for either Oral or Poster presentations is made online here.
The deadline for the submission is 1st February 2021. Late submissions will be ineligible to contest for the two Awards, as described below.Abstracts are to be submitted in English and should be no longer than 300 words.
The format of the abstracts should have the following headings: Title, Researchers (principal investigator’s name must be underlined), Institution, Background, Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions. This format is exempted in the abstracts for case reports.
Submission of abstracts must be accompanied by the registration and the payment of fees for the main Congress. Refund of registration fees, in accordance to the cancellation policy of the Congress, can be made only if the abstracts have been rejected by the Scientific Committee and a refund is sought.
All participants accepted for the Oral Presentations will be required to prepare a pre-recorded 10-minute video, which will need to be submitted to speaker.psm@gmail.com by 1st March 2021. This video will be uploaded to a video-on-demand site accessible on the Congress website. Throughout the main Congress session, a Question-and-Answer chat facility will be available to Congress delegates to ask questions and for you to answer during the day. These videos can also be viewed for 3 months post-after the Congress.
The short-listed pre-recorded videos for the Best Oral Presentation in each category, will be shown LIVE at the allocated time as shown in the Congress programme. A maximum time of 3 minutes will be allocated for the judges to question the candidates at the end of each presentation. The relevant candidate needs to be present online during the allocated time.