Submissions

Key Dates

Submissions Related to Meeting Theme

Session Duration & Scheduling

Submission Criteria

Sample Agenda & Best Practices

Faculty

Submission Categories

Target Audiences

Career Development Workshop Series

Go To Submission Site

Peer Review Criteria

Key Dates

Peer Review Rubric

Peer Review Instructions

---

Submissions

Key Dates

August 15, 2022: Submission Portal Opens
September 22, 2022: Submission Portal Closes 
November 2, 2022: Acceptance notifications sent
November 16, 2022: RSVP deadline

Submissions Related to Meeting Theme

For theme related submissions, presenters are encouraged to develop workshops that highlight new skills, knowledge, clinical application, policy, or research methodologies for the general internist related to the meeting theme "General Internal Medicine: Meeting the Promise of Tomorrow”.

Session Duration & Scheduling

• Workshops are 60 and 90 minutes long (less slots for 90 minutes)
• Workshops will be scheduled throughout the meeting.
• Submitting authors should be prepared to present in the time slot assigned.
• Scheduling requests are not accepted.
• View best practices for hosting a workshop below.

Submission Criteria

1. Title:Do not use all caps.
2. Presented in Conjunction with: Optional. Typically with an SGIM Committee, Commission, or Interest Group.
3. Session Summary: ≤ 3,000 characters, including spaces.Please exclude self-identifying information, including presenter names or institutions.
4. Meeting Theme: Does this session fit with the meeting theme? If so, which part of the theme? (≤ 250 characters, including spaces)
5. Learning Objectives: (minimum 3 required) Each learning objective should reflect one of the six ACGME Core Competencies.
6. Target Audience: Select from the options listed below for the best audience for your session.
7. Session Agenda At least five minutes must be allocated for workshop attendees to complete session evaluations. Please exclude self-identifying information such as presenter names or institutions.
8.  Extended Workshop Session Optional. Select workshops may be considered for a 90-minute session to extend skills-building opportunities. If the workshop would like to be considered for an extended workshop session, please describe how you plan to organize the additional time.
9. Category: Select one category from the list below.
10. Career Development Series:Note whether or not you want your submission considered for this series.

Note: There is a submission fee of $85.

Sample Agenda & Best Practices

Highly rated workshops make good use of the time allotted and incorporate active learning strategies.  The agenda should ensure the learning objectives are met and adequate time is allowed for each activity, taking into account additional time needed for transitions to small group breakout sessions or other activities.

Sample Agenda

0:00 – 0:05 Commencement, introductions to the workshop presenters, outline goals and learning objectives

0:05 – 0:10 Frame the session by providing any helpful background information and skills demonstration

0:10 – 0:40 Small group discussion (breakout session)

0:40 – 0:50 Large group report out and brief additional material

0:50 – 0:75 Small group skills practice part 2 (breakout session)

0:75 – 0:85 Large group report out, skills-related feedback, and debrief

0:85 – 0:90 Session Evaluation (required)

Workshop best PRACTICES

Faculty

• Workshop submissions must identify one (and only one) session coordinator. Co-coordinators are not an option. 
  • Session coordinators will be responsible for confirming all faculty will be available to host the workshop at the scheduled time during the RSVP process. 
• Workshop submissions may include up to four (4) additional workshop faculty members for a total of five (5) workshop faculty (including session coordinator). We strongly encourage members to collaborate across institutions. 
• Every workshop faculty member must have an updated ScholarOne account before they are added to a workshop submission. 
  • Submitting authors should confirm email addresses of all faculty/presenters to avoid creating duplicate accounts in ScholarOne. 
• NOTE to submitting authors: please make sure you inform people before you add them to your submission. Each will receive a submission confirmation and it helps if they know your plan ahead of time. 
• Accepted presenters are required to register and pay registration fees. Acceptance and acknowledgment of Presenter Registration Policy is required at the time of submission. 

Submission Categories

Submitting authors select the category for the submission that best reflects the work. Workshop categories also determine its assignment to review committees. The program committee does its best to schedule sessions within the same category in a manner that avoids conflicts within concurrent sessions, but this is not always possible.

• Acute Disease Management
  Submissions that focus on the care of hospitalized patients, and the role, effectiveness and innovation of inpatient, urgent, or emergency care and inpatient clinicians and systems
• Adolescent Medicine and Transitioning to Adult Care
  Submissions addressing adolescent medicine and genetic diseases that develop in childhood, including the transition of care from childhood to adult.

• Career Development, Professionalism, and Wellness
  Submissions focusing on issues impacting career development, promotion, work satisfaction, personal and professional life integration, and creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for the generalist workforce.

•  Chronic Disease Management
  Submissions that focus on the care of outpatient care of medical conditions, and the role, effectiveness and innovation of primary care and outpatient clinicians and systems.

• Clinical Informatics and Health Information Technology
  Submissions that combine foundational principles of computer and information science with medicine to further advancements in medical research, patient data collection and analysis, medical education, telemedicine, and administration of public health care services.

• Clinical Skills
  Submissions that highlight techniques and clinical skills for ambulatory and hospital-based clinical care.
  
  
• DEI, Health Equity, and Social Determinants of Health
  Submissions devoted to the health and health care of underserved and special populations, the social and structural factors that impact health, and identifying and/or rectifying health disparities.  This includes submissions on anti-racism, LGBTQ+ communities, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Latinx, and other communities facing discrimination.
  
  
• Geriatrics and Palliative Care
  Submissions addressing aging, care of older adults and/or individuals living with a serious illness, and treatment decision making for individuals near end of life.

• Healthcare Delivery and Redesign
  Submissions with a focus on re-imagining, redesigning, and implementing innovative systems to deliver health care more effectively and efficiently.
  
  
• Health Policy
  Submissions that evaluate the impact of local, state/province, or national policies and/or advocacy on clinical and economic outcomes.
  
  
• Medical Education and Scholarship
  Submissions that focus on issues related to medical education (needs assessment, curricular design, curricular implementation, outcomes assessment in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education).

• Medical Ethics and Humanities
  Submissions that focus on clinical ethics, research ethics, global health ethics, medical professionalism, the history of medicine, art, literature, philosophy, theology and/or spirituality in medicine.

• Mental/Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
  Submissions addressing mental health and substance abuse through clinical research or educational research. This includes a broad range of substances – alcohol, tobacco, both prescription and non-prescription drugs in addition to street drugs.
  
  
• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
  Submissions that focus on quality assessment, gaps in quality of care, medical errors, quality improvement, patient safety and health systems science in the ambulatory or inpatient setting.
  
  
• Research Skills
  Submissions that highlight techniques and skills for clinical, medical education, health policy or health services research, with the goal of strengthening the General Medicine research workforce 
  
  
• Resiliency and Wellness
  Submissions that focus on the practices of resiliency, the ability to bounce back from hardship, and wellness, the practice of actively making choices toward a healthy lifestyle, as means of combating workplace related stress and burnout.
  
  
• Women’s Health, Sex, and Gender-Informed Medicine
  Submissions related to education, research and patient care affected by patient sex and gender, including reproductive health care, men’s health, and gender affirming medicine.

Target Audiences

Please select the most appropriate target audience for each workshop submission from those listed below. In selecting a target audience, authors should identify the group most likely to benefit from attending the workshop:

1. General audience
2. Medical students/Residents/Fellows
3. Early career clinician-investigators
4. Early career clinician-educators
5. Mid-late career clinician-investigators
6. Mid-late career clinician-educators
7. Clinician administrators

Career Development Workshop Series

The Annual Meeting Program Committee will once again be scheduling a series of workshops on career development. This series, envisioned to feature workshop offerings that will form a sequence or curriculum over the course of multiple annual meetings, will address important transitions and milestones in the career development of general internists engaged or aspiring to engage in, clinical practice, health policy, advocacy, education, and research. The online submission system will require you to identify whether your submission would be appropriate to be scheduled as part of this series if it is accepted for presentation.

Target Career Stage
Submitting authors will be asked to identify the most appropriate target career stage for the workshop submission. In selecting a target audience, authors should identify the group most likely to benefit from attending the workshop:

• Any
• Trainee (Student/Resident/Fellow)
• Early (within 5 years of completing last trainee stage)
• Mid (5-10 years after completing last trainee stage)
• Late (>10 years after completing last trainee stage)

Target Career Focus

Submitting authors will be asked to identify the most appropriate target career focus for the workshop submission.

• Any
• Research
• Education
• Clinical Practice
• Health Policy/Advocacy
• Administration/Management/Leadership

---

Peer Review Criteria

Key Dates

August 9, 2022: Peer Review Signup Opens
September 23, 2022: Peer Review Signup Deadline
September 27, 2022: Peer Review Opens
October 11, 2022: Peer Review Closes (12pm ET)

Peer Review Rubric

Use the following rubric as you review workshop submissions 

 Download Peer Review Rubric

Peer Review Instructions

Detailed reviewer instructions for peer review in ScholarOne
DOWNLOAD Peer Review Instructions