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AAAA Annual Meeting Poster Presentation Guidelines
The purpose of the AAAA poster presentation exhibition is for students to present scholarly work in scientific or educational research, share clinical vignettes or present a review of current scientific literature on a clinical topic to the broader AA community. These exhibits encourage students to develop their practice-based learning skills and investigate anesthesia based scientific foundations. General Requirements Presentations for the annual AAAA meeting poster presentation exhibit may be submitted by any current student who attends an accredited Anesthesiologist Assistant training program and has an active AAAA membership. Although there can be multiple contributors and authors to a project, the presentation must be made by a primary author of the scholarly work. A primary author must have participated in the planning, data collection and analysis of scientific research or had to be present during the entirely of a clinical vignette (case report), and conducted the majority of research into the
- case. A literature review must include evidence from at least five primary sources.
Submissions that are sponsored by pharmaceutical or medical device companies are strongly
- discouraged. Selection for participation in the poster session will be based on quality of research, clarity
- f the abstract and adherence to the guidelines.
Abstracts All those who wish to present a poster at the meeting must submit an abstract detailing their project in the appropriate style. Those submitting scientific research or literature reviews should follow APA/IMRaD style of:
- Introduction
- Materials & Methods
- Results
- Discussion
Those submitting clinical vignettes should submit their abstract in the following style:
- Title and Author Information
- Introduction
- Case Description
- Discussion
Each abstract submitted may be entered in one of three categories: Original Research: Report of study findings or other research project that has not been previously presented or published. Students may submit research from basic clinical science or original educational research. Clinical Report/Case Studies: Clinical case reports or clinical vignettes. The main purpose of the discussion is to review why decisions were made and to extract the lesson from the case. Literature Review: A comprehensive review of current research on a relevant clinical topic in the field of
- Anesthesiology. The review presentation must include an introduction on the topic, a summary of the