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Abstracts must be submitted by 11pm Eastern on December 12, 2022
Notification of acceptance for presentation (oral or asynchronous) will be sent out by January 27, 2023. There will be a limited number of live virtual oral presentations. Submissions meeting minimum review requirements but not selected for live oral presentation will be accommodated as asynchronous oral presentations (pre-recorded short oral presentation). Please read the following abstract submission guidelines closely.
Abstracts accepted for this year’s ROECSG symposium will be published electronically in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. All submission fields must be completed as requested and formatting requirements must be followed.
NOTE ABOUT PROJECTS ALSO SUBMITTED TO THE ASTRO ANNUAL MEETING: Authors are permitted to submit the same abstract to both the ROECSG Spring Symposium and the ASTRO Annual Meeting. However, authors are encouraged to include updated data or research findings in their ASTRO submission if it becomes available before the ASTRO abstract submission deadline. If you have questions about this policy please contact symposium@roecsg.org.
You must complete your abstract submission in one session. Submissions cannot be saved and returned to at a later time. Please prepare your submission offline based on the guidelines below before submitting.
ROECSG encourages authors to review their submission with the medical education research study quality instrument (MERSQI) and the Newcastle-Ottowa Scale-Education (NOS-E). For details on these rating scales, please see Figure 1 in Cook and Reed Academic Medicine 2015.
Abstract submissions are limited to 400 words not including title, authors, institutional and affiliations. References are not allowed. Abstracts >400 words will not be reviewed.
Your submission must include the following:
Title: Provide an informative session title
Authors: Authors and institutions (format = First MI Last name Degree(s) Institution; list each author/institution on a separate line). A maximum of 20 authors’ names may be listed on each abstract. There are no exceptions. Authorship credit should only be given if all three of the following criteria are met. There is not mechanism for listing co-lead authors, or co-PIs. Each author must have made substantial contributions to:
- conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data, and
- drafting the abstract or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and
- final approval of the version to be submitted/published
Disclosures: Please include a disclosure statement for each author for any potential or perceived conflicts of interest. If an author does not have a disclosure, please state “none.”
Category:
1) Completed Work – projects with results that will be ready for presentation at the symposium
2) Work in Progress – incomplete projects that are in the conceptual phase, design phase, or data collection phase but do not have results ready for presentation at the symposium
Abstract format:
- Background: What problems or issues have you identified and addressed/What problems or issues have you identified and are working to address?
- Methods: What did you do/What do you plan to do?
- Results: What did you find/What do you expect to find (i.e. your hypothesis)?
- Discussion: What did you discover as a result of your efforts? / What do you expect to discover? What implications do these/will these lessons hold for now or the future?
Tables/Figures are not allowed.
List of 3 key words: Provide 3 key words that articulate the focus of your submission
Abstracts will be reviewed and rated by multiple reviewers on the following criteria. Top abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation unless the submitting author specifies a preference for an asynchronous oral presentation.
ROECSG Abstract Review Criteria
1) Topic of Importance: Topic is relevant and timely for a national/international audience
2) Approach: The authors effectively explain an approach that solves the problem identified
3) Interpretation: Results or outcomes are presented in a clear manner; for research highlights, discussion is grounded in the literature
4) Significance: The authors provide evidence that the findings have implications for now or the future
Please contact symposium@roecsg.org with any questions about the abstract submission guidelines.
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