Poster Guidelines
POSTER and PLATFORM PRESENTATIONSClick here for the 2018 Poster Abstract Submission Form. Submission deadline is January 10.
ICHP POSTER CATEGORIES:
The following are the categories for submission:
Original Research:
To be considered for acceptance, papers must describe original research
in pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,
practice innovations in organized health-care settings, administrative
practice or cost analysis of pharmaceutical services. Papers must not
have been published in abstract or complete form or have been presented
elsewhere prior to presentation at the ICHP Spring Meeting.
Research in progress:
To be considered for acceptance, papers must describe original research
in progress in pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics or
pharmacodynamics or practice innovations in organized health-care
settings, administrative practice or cost analysis of pharmaceutical
services. Papers must neither have been published in abstract or
complete form nor have been presented elsewhere prior to presentation at
the ICHP Spring Meeting. Those abstracts submitted as research in
progress are expected to have results and conclusions available for
poster presentation at the Spring Meeting. Those with no results and
conclusions by the time of the meeting are disqualified.
Encore:
Research may have been presented elsewhere or published in abstract or
complete form only prior to presentation at the ICHP Spring Meeting. To
be considered for acceptance, papers must describe research in
pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,
practice innovations in organized health-care settings, administrative
practice or cost analysis of pharmaceutical services. Posters or papers
presented before January 1 of the previous year are not eligible. For
example, posters or papers presented before January 1, 2017 are not
eligible for 2018 submissions. Full results and conclusions must have
been presented/published previously to qualify as an encore
presentation. Those projects previously presented/published without
results and conclusions should be submitted as an original poster.
Student:
Only original material will be considered. Any material that has
already been presented should be entered as an encore presentation. The
person primarily responsible for the work must be a current student
enrolled in an Illinois School of Pharmacy and must present the poster
at the meeting.
Original research may be submitted as research in
progress. Those abstracts submitted as research in progress are
expected to have results and conclusions available for poster
presentation at the Spring Meeting. Those with no results and
conclusions by the time of the meeting are disqualified.
**Case reports and literature reviews are not eligible for poster submission. These types of research may be eligible for submission to ICHP's Newsjournal, KeePosted.
Platform Presentations
Abstracts
submitted with results and conclusions will be eligible for a platform
presentation, as decided by the ICHP Educational Affairs Division Poster
Review Committee. In addition to a research abstract, individuals
submitting an abstract with results and conclusions must also submit one
learning objective that: 1) is encompassing of the overall project, and
2) uses one of the approved knowledge-based verbs listed below:
• Arrange
• Classify
• Define
• Describe
• Discuss
• Duplicate
• Explain
• Express
• Identify
• Indicate
• Label
• List
• Locate
• Memorize
• Name
• Order
• Outline
• Recognize
• Relate
• Recall
• Repeat
• Reproduce
• Report
• Re-state
• State
For further information about the platform presentation, see the Review of Submissions section below.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
All
Illinois health-system pharmacy practitioners, including pharmacists, pharmacy residents, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy students are invited to submit projects for
consideration. The submitting author must be a current ICHP member. If a
student is listed as the submitting author for an original
presentation, the poster will be eligible for the student award.
The
submitting author should present the poster; however, if legitimate
circumstances do not permit attendance at the meeting; another pharmacy professional author
for that poster may present at the poster during the poster exhibit
session at the Spring Meeting. All poster presenters must be registered
for the Spring Meeting and complete ACPE required documents as requested, if the posters are accredited for continuing pharmacy education.
SUBMISSION OF POSTERS:
Individuals wishing to present a poster should submit the information through the ICHP website.
Click here for the 2018 Poster Abstract Submission Form. Submission deadline is January 10.
REVIEW OF SUBMISSIONS:
All submissions from eligible
authors received by the designated deadline will be reviewed anonymously
by the Educational Affairs Division Poster Review Committee for their
acceptability for presentation. Submissions will be reviewed for their
originality and applicability to health-system pharmacy and scored on
relevance/originality, objectives, methods, results and
conclusions/implications (click here for abstract scoring sheet).
In
order for an original or encore submission to be accepted for poster
presentation, a minimum score of 5 on the abstract scoring sheet is
required. Research in progress requires a
minimum score of 3, as results and conclusions/implications will not be
scored. Two blinded reviewers must score the abstracts at the minimum
required score in order for it to be accepted for poster presentation at
the Spring Meeting. In the case of a split decision between the 2
blinded reviewers, a 3rd blinded reviewer will score the abstract and the abstract will be accepted if the minimum
required score is also given by the 3rd reviewer.
The two abstracts in the original research categories with the highest
scores (minimum of 7), submitted with results and conclusions at the
time for abstract submission, will be invited to participate in the
platform presentation session at the Spring Meeting. If there are none that qualify, encore research with results and conclusions will be considered if it receives a score of 7 or higher. Each presentation
will be 15 minutes in length. These presenters will receive a platform
presentation award (see Awards section below). If a presenter opts out
of the platform session, they will still be eligible for a poster award.
The next highest score will be invited to participate in the platform
session if a presenter opts out of the platform session. Those accepted
for a platform presentation will be asked to provide additional
information for ACPE accreditation purposes. Three judges will be
selected to score the presentations.
The five abstracts with the
next highest scores from the Original Research and Research in Progress categories combined will be eligible for the “Original”
poster awards. The five abstracts with the highest scores in the Encore and Student categories will be eligible for the “Encore” and “Student”
poster awards, respectively. A project presented during the platform
session is not eligible for a poster award and vice versa.
Although
all posters received by the deadline will be reviewed on their merits,
in some instances, due to space limitations, only a limited number of
posters will be accepted for presentation at the meeting. For this
reason, authors of poster submissions are encouraged to submit their
entries early since, under these circumstances, posters will be accepted
for presentation on a “first come, first served” basis.
All
submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance of their poster as
either a platform presentation or a poster presentation via e-mail.
Authors whose posters are rejected will be provided with a detailed
explanation of the committee’s reason(s) for their decision.
AWARDS:
Best
Platform Presentation – recognition plaque and winner's pharmacy department will
receive one free ICHP state-wide full meeting registration of their
choice to give to one employee.
Best Original Poster – recognition certificate and the winner's pharmacy
department will receive 50% off one ICHP state-wide full meeting
registration of their choice for one of their employees
Best Encore Poster – recognition certificate
Best
Student Poster – recognition certificate and the winner's ICHP student chapter will
receive one free ICHP state-wide full student meeting registration of their
choice for one of their members
Posters/platform presentations will be judged at the ICHP Spring Meeting, during which time the winners will be announced.