The official abstract submission period has ended. We still offer you the possibility of a late abstract submission, but we can only give maximum a poster. Absolute last deadline is 31 March.


Please submit your late abstract here.


Abstract notifications: Deadline has been reached, but a number of reviewers accept to still verify abstracts until 31 March.


PLEASE NOTE THAT DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION FOR ABSTRACT SUBMITTERS IS 10 APRIL 2016 !!!


Guidelines for abstracts and presentations (please read carefully the guidelines below before submitting your abstract):


• Abstracts must be in English. Please, make sure that the English has been linguistically revised. We strongly encourage you to prepare your abstract carefully in e.g. Word before submitting and use copy-paste

• Please select the appropriate format of your presentation (symposium, workshop, oral or poster presentation). A symposium or workshop is 60 or 75 minutes.

• The maximum length for the abstract title is 20 words

• The maximum length for the abstract text is 300 words

• Abstracts shall include the sections:

   1. Background & Aim
   2. Method
   3. Results
   4. Conclusions

When preparing abstracts for symposiums or workshop please follow the structure given above and then for the method present the content and how it will be presented and under results the anticipated/planned knowledge that participants will achieve.

Main Abstract Themes:

01 - The ageing Europe
02 - Making health care affordable
03 - Future consultations
04 - Diagnosing - a vital task for family medicine
05 - Inequality in health and specific patient groups
06 – Other

In addition to relevant research presentations, we also welcome sessions and presentations regarding quality improvement, education (pre- and postgraduate), health care organization, patient safety and involvement, ethics, professional development, practice points and other important issues within family medicine.

Presentation Types:

Symposium:
A symposium is a formal meeting at which experts present and discuss a particular topic. Information about different aspects of the topic considering the best evidence and state of art should be provided within the symposium. The speakers should prepare proper slides to assist their presentation within the specified time limits.

Workshop:
A meeting at which a group of people engage in intensive discussion and activity on a particular subject or project, by emphasizing on exchange of ideas and the demonstration, and application of techniques, skills, etc. Workshop presenters may have a short presentation but most of the time should be used for group discussions relevant to the workshop topic and at the end the result of the discussions should be reported.

Oral Presentation:
Participants will be given the opportunity to present their research in short oral presentations. Each session will consist of presentations around the same subject. The duration of oral presentations will be announced at a later stage.

Poster Presentation and one-slide presentations:
Participants will be given the opportunity to present their research in poster presentations. Poster size and poster display sessions will be announced at a later stage. There will also be a limited possibility for the best posters to be presented as 1-slide presentations in specific sessions.

Abstract Evaluation Criteria:

Each abstract will be anonymously assessed by one or more reviewers, according to the following scoring grid:

• Contribution to the scientific aspects of the family medicine discipline
• Contribution to the family medicine practice
• Compliance with abstract submission guidelines
• Clear language 

Competing Interests: All authors should declare their competing interests in the abstract submission platform, namely support from any organisation for the submitted work, financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years and/or relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.