The 56th Annual Southeastern Residency Conference will be held in-person at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Please read and follow all instructions carefully. We hope to make this a meaningful professional development opportunity for all participants.
- Registration opens February 1st.
- Resident Registration deadline is March 1st.
- Abstracts must be submitted between March 2nd and April 1st. Instructions will be emailed to all registered residents on March 2nd.
- Presentations will be live, in-person during scheduled times April 30th & May 1st at the Classic Center. Presenters must be present in their assigned room, ready to present at their scheduled time. The presenter schedule will be sent out closer to the conference.
- Moderators and Evaluators will be scheduled in each room for each session. The Moderator & Evaluator schedule will be sent out closer to the conference.
- There will be time at the end of each presentation for questions.
- Schedules and abstracts will be available via SCHED. Invitations to SCHED will be emailed out closer to the conference.
Requirements for abstracts
View sample abstracts
- You MUST be registered for the conference by March 1st. On March 2nd, I will email all registered residents with instructions on submitting abstracts. Deadline for online abstract submission and registration is 11:59pm Eastern Time on April 1.
- Content must be entered in each section prior to abstract submission.
- Check grammar, punctuation, and capitalization before final submission. Minor edits can be made to the published abstract in SCHED before the conference begins, but all edits must remain in the guidelines.
- Your abstract will not be accepted until you have paid the conference registration fees.
- The information provided will create your abstract as it will appear when published. Please adhere to the following standards:
- Title limited to 2 lines of text – short, specific titles preferred.
- Authors’ names – do not use degrees or titles.
- Choose the appropriate practice site from the drop down menu. This information will be automatically added to your final abstract (if your site is not listed, contact Elise Martin, Executive Director, by emailing sercpharm@gmail.com)
- The remaining sections must total 600 words or less (does not include title or authors) and should include:
- Background
- Methods
- Results (preliminary results are acceptable)*
- Conclusions (reached to date)*
- *If results/conclusions not available, insert “In Progress”. Update in SCHED will be required prior to the Conference.
- List e-mail of resident (or best contact) for follow-up by interested participants.
- Note: presentation objective and self-assessment question no longer required for abstract submission, but must be included in your slides presented. Slides should be uploaded to SCHED before the start of the conference.
Instructions for Abstract Submission
Instructions will be emailed after registration deadline of March 1st. Please be sure you are registered by March 1st.
References for Presentation and Delivery
- Journal articles:
- DeCoske MA, White SJ. Public speaking revisited: delivery, structure, and style. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(15):1225-7.
- Vazquez SR. Publishing your residency project. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(13)1058-9.
- McKelvey RP, Hatton RC, Kimberlin CA. Pharmacy resident project publication rates and study designs from 1981, 1991, and 2001. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(10)830-6.
- Barletta JF. Conducting a successful residency research project. Am J Pharm Educ. 2008;72(4)92.
- Murphy JE, Downhour N. Perceived value and outcomes of residency projects. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2001;58(10)889-95.
- Haynes RB, et al. A proposal for more informative abstracts of clinical articles. Ann Intern Med. 1987;106(4)598-604.
- Rennie D, Glass RM. Structuring abstracts to make them more informative. JAMA. 1991;266(1)116-117.
- Books:
- Hulley SB, Cummings SR, Browner WS, editors. Designing clinical research. 3rd ed. Philadelphia (PA): Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007.
- Day RA, Gastel B. How to write and publish a scientific paper. 6th ed. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.; 2006.
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