GUIDELINES

Submissions for poster presentations at the Community Health Leadership Conference must be preceded by an abstract submission as part of the conference application. The abstract should summarize your poster presentation topic and should focus on one or more of the following topics as they relate to your school’s student run health fairs or clinics:

1.     An overview of your school’s successful, sustainable model.

2.     A description of new or recent innovations and enhancements implemented by your program.

3.     An explanation of a recent challenge faced by your program and how the program addressed the challenge.

4.     How your program built or strengthened a community partnership.

5.     How your program links its patients with continual, sustainable care.

The typed abstract should conform to the following specifications:

1.     The entire abstract should be no longer than 500 words including title and authors.

2.     Point size 11 for normal text.

3.     All words in the title should be in bold capital letters.

4.     All abbreviations designated by code or initial letters in the title must be identified in the body of the abstract.

5.     The presenting Author’s Name (i.e. your name) should be underlined.

6.     PI (if applicable) should be listed last with an asterisk.

7.     Include the department and school or institution along with the author’s names.

8.     The abstract should contain the objective, methods, results, and conclusion of the research study.

A sample abstract can be found here: Sample Abstract