Complete the form below to submit your abstract for the Scientific Abstract Competition, making sure you have nominated your work to be considered for abstract prizes, where appropriate.
Submissions close 5pm, Friday 20 Sept.
Please note the following when submitting your abstract application:
- All contact details supplied will be for the Presenting Author.
- Abstract naming convention - please ensure you save your abstract as a Word doc with the title in the following manner;
- Surname_firstinitial_first_four_words_of_abstract_title
- E.g. King_S_Pulmonary_function_and_fat
- The Presenting Author is the person who is presenting the research and is preferably the one who has undertaken the research. They are also the person who will appear in a video should they be selected and choose to take part. The Presenting Author does not have to be first or senior author.
- Presenting Authors must have been working at the Alfred precinct during the course of the featured project.
- Only one application may be submitted by any Presenting Author.
- Content may have been presented at a conference in the past 12 months.
- No figures or tables may be included in the abstract. Figure labels and table legends are excluded from word count, but the contents of the table will count towards the total word count.
- Abstract content from original research in the last 12 months will be prioritised.
- Individual abstracts will be considered for one award category only. Please select the primary or most appropriate research area when prompted. Refer to the Alfred Health Week Award categories and prizes here.
Systematic reviews are not considered to be original content/research. Other areas such as retrospective chart reviews, other retrospective studies, meta-analyses, linkage studies and prospective studies are considered to be original content/research.