VA Special Series

VA Special Series

The 2023 SGIM Annual Meeting "The Promise of Tomorrow." We will use our meeting to reflect on the fundamental changes that we have experienced over the past few years. We have, and are, navigating changes in how in our we prepare our trainees, in how we care for our patients, and in how we gather, translate, and implement the evidence that informs our patient care and education. Our plenaries, symposia, workshops, and presentations will highlight where we are and where we need to go. We will explore how general internists can take a leadership role in innovation in research, education, and clinical practice and in so doing advance policies aimed at improving the health of our patients and communities.  We invite you to join us to craft a vision of the future in a world that has dramatically altered over the course of a few years. The opportunities ahead of us are vast, and we will use our meeting to explore how we can be change agents who meet the promise of tomorrow.

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Key Dates

Session Duration

Submission Criteria

Faculty

Submission Topics

Submission Categories

Submission Process

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Key Dates

August 15, 2022: ScholarOne Submission Portal Opens
August 22, 2022 (12pm ET): ScholarOne Submission Portal Closes
November 2, 2022: Acceptance Notifications Sent
November 16, 2022: RSVP Responses Due

Session Duration

Sessions are 60 minutes long and may be presented in a didactic or interactive workshop format.

Submission Criteria

  1. Title: Do not use all caps
  2. Relation to Meeting Theme: How does this session fit with the meeting theme? (limit: 250 characters, including spaces). **Please see submission topics below**
  3. Session Summary: Limit: 3,000 characters, including spaces
  4. Collaboration: Identify SGIM Committee, Commission, Workgroup or External Organization
  5. Primary & Secondary Category: See list below
  6. ACGME-Specific Learning Objectives: (4 required) Each learning objective should reflect one of the six ACGME Core Competencies
  7. Session History: Has this session been presented before? If yes, identify the meeting(s) and date(s)
  8. Target Audience: General Audience, Beginning/Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Medical Students/Residents/Fellows
  9. Session Agenda: How will you design your session agenda with audience engagement in mind? 
  10. Product Approval: Does your presentation reference/mention a product that is not approved in the United States for the use under discussion? Yes/No. If yes, explain
  11. Session Coordinator: and up to four additional speakers (maximum: five total speakers)

Faculty

  • Special Symposia submissions must identify one (and only one) session coordinator. Co-coordinators are not an option.
  • Special Symposia submissions may include up to four (4) additional Update faculty members for a total of 5 presenters.
  • Every Special Symposia faculty member must have an updated ScholarOne account before they are added to a submission.
    • Submitting authors should confirm email addresses of all faculty/presenters to avoid creating duplicate accounts in ScholarOne
  • Accepted presenters are required to register and pay registration fees. Acceptance and acknowledgement of Presenter Registration Policy is required at time of submission.
  • Honoraria are not offered to Special Symposia presenters.

Submission Topics

Theme-related topics may include those related to any of SGIM's stated values: 

  • To foster discovery through inclusive excellence, enhancing infrastructure and support is necessary to attract and retain physicians to the field of General Internal Medicine
  • To use equity in research, engaging policy makers in dismantling structural inequities, and in education to eliminate inequities in health
  • Impact which affects our ability to advocate on behalf of our patients and communities to ensure optimal health for all
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration and team-based care
  • Collegiality, mentorship, and career development
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion 

Submission Categories

Submitting authors MUST select one track and one subcategory for each submission that best reflects the work.

Select a track:

  1. Teaching & Medical Education
  2. Research

Then, select one of the subcategories:

  • Career Development
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Clinical Informatics and Health Information Technology
  • Clinical Skills
  • DEI, Health Equity, and Social Determinants of Health
  • Geriatrics and Palliative Care
  • Healthcare Delivery and Redesign
  • Health Policy
  • Medical Education and Scholarship
  • Medical Ethics and Humanities 
  • Quality Improvement and Patient Safety 
  • Research
  • Research Skills
  • Women’s Health, Sex, and Gender-Informed Medicine

Go to the Submission Categories page for more information on the categories.


All submissions will be submitted via ScholarOne. There is no submission fee. 

Submit via the SGIM22 ScholarOne Submission Site: https://sgim23.abstractcentral.com/, opens August 9, 2022

NOTE: Select "VA Special Series" when prompted for Submission Type.

Submission questions can be directed to: Erika Baker.

Review Process

Only submissions received by the deadline will be considered for scheduling, indicating they are invited sessions. The SGIM Annual Meeting Program Committee will evaluate proposals based on their fit with the meeting theme, quality of the proposal, and VA relevance. Submitters will be notified by September 13, 2021 whether their submission(s) will be scheduled as a VA Special Series Session. This will allow time for those not selected to be submitted as workshop proposals in the Annual Meeting's standard peer-review process.