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THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RADIATION ONCOLOGY SOCIETY

Is accepting applications from Residents and Fellows for
Electronic Scientific Presentations

61^st Annual Midwinter Radiation Oncology Conference
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, Los Angeles
January 24-25, 2009

Electronic presentations should be considered scientific posters in electronic format, and must be a visual presentation designed to further the understanding of radiation oncology by featuring new, original, hypothesis-driven research or case studies.  Any investigational data presented must include a broader educational message.

Submissions will be juried by the LARS/SCROS Continuing Education Committee.  A maximum of 9 presentations will be selected.  Presentations will be projected electronically during breaks in conference sessions and will be printed in the conference syllabus and posted in a secure PDF format on the LARS website for review.  Principal authors of the 9 selected presentations will receive complimentary tuition to the conference.  Principal authors must be a Resident or Fellow Junior member of SCROS in a Southern California training program.

Basis for selection of Research Presentations

All presentations must

• Present original work from your current institution

• Be in PowerPoint Format.  (Audio clips will not be supported.)

• Be 6 minutes in length (for instance, 18 slides shown for 20 seconds equals 6 minutes)

• Include a title slide showing authors and institution

• Be IRB approved and HIPAA compliant.

• Not contain any advertising, trade names, or product-group messages.

Presentations of new research or research in progress should include:

• Exhibit title, authors, and institution where research was undertaken

• Object or purpose of study

• Materials, methods and procedures

• Results/conclusions

• Significance of the results/conclusions

Basis for selection:

• Does the exhibit pose an important and novel question?

• Does the study design permit the question to be answered?

• Are the endpoints of the study clearly defined?

• Are statistics appropriately used?

• Are the conclusions clearly drawn and supported by the data?

• Does the data present a broad educational message?

Case Presentations should include:

• Exhibit title, authors, and institution where exhibit was prepared

• Objectives and/or Purpose of the study

• Two to four educational goals to be accomplished by the study

• Review material

• Concluding statement

Basis for selection:

• Is the objective/purpose of the study clearly defined and of broad interest?

• Does the design of the study permit the objective(s) to be obtained?

• Are statistics appropriately used?

• Is the population of the study sufficient to support the conclusions?

• Are the conclusions clearly drawn and supported by the data?

• Does the data present a broad educational message?

Deadlines:

Applications and electronic presentations must be received at LARS/SCROS by 5:00pm, December 19, 2008.

All applications must be made electronically through the LARS/SCROS website.  PowerPoint presentations must be submitted by email.  No applications or presentations will be accepted later than the deadline.

LARS’ Policies for Continuing Medical Education:

LARS is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association.  As such we have made the choice to meet the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s (ACCME) guidelines for the provision of continuing medical education.

• LARS expects that all of its CME activities will adhere to the ACCME’s content validation value statements.  Specifically, all recommendations involving clinical medicine in a CME activity must be based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.  All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in CME in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.

• LARS expects that the content or format of CME activities and related materials will promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest or a commercial interest.  Use of generic names will contribute to this impartiality.  If the CME educational content includes trade names, where available, trade names from several companies should be used – not just trade names from a single company.

• Education materials that are part of LARS’ CME activities, such as slides, PowerPoints, and handouts, cannot contain any advertising, trade names, or product-group messages.

ACCME Definition of a Financial Relationship:

Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g. stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds) or other financial benefit.  Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is receive or expected.  The ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

In compliance with the ACCME’s guidelines regarding commercial bias, everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity must disclose relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest.  To help us plan a program free of commercial bias, you will be asked to disclose your financial relevant financial relationships on the Exhibit Submission Form.

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