You will be using this site to prepare submissions for
APM's 2017 Annual Meeting. The meeting details are:
- Pre-Conference Day: Wednesday, November 8
- 2017 Annual Meeting: Thursday, November 9 – Saturday, November 11
- Location: La Quinta Resort, 49499 Eisenhower Dr., La Quinta, CA 92253
The theme of this year's meeting is
Addressing Current Dilemmas in Psychosomatic Medicine: Consultants Consulting the Experts. While submissions that span the breadth of psychosomatic medicine are welcome, submissions that align with the meeting theme will be preferred over general subjects.
Clinicians in psychosomatic medicine face a wide breath of conundrums and controversies in all areas of practice. Therefore, successful submissions related to current dilemmas in psychosomatic medicine will cover a wide breadth of topics. We hope for an extensive range of presentations including, but not limited to, inpatient consultation-liaison, collaborative care, psychiatric emergencies, maternal-fetal medicine, child C-L, addiction, forensics, ethics, and other topics relevant to clinicians in psychosomatic medicine settings.
The APM Annual Meeting Program Committee is dedicated to assembling the highest-quality educational program for our attendees. Each year, the best-received sessions are those in which attendees learn information relevant to their work in a lively, engaging environment. In the spirit of continuous improvement we encourage all potential presenters to incorporate emerging knowledge about how adults learn in order to better engage their audience. This includes considering Socratic teaching methods and other forms of audience participation, flipped classrooms, and case-based instruction.
As with last year’s meeting, we will not be making a clear distinction between symposia and workshops but rather will be evaluating submissions as “general sessions”. Some of the sessions may be more interactive than others, similar to workshops, and this can be described in the abstract.
The abstract submission should be structured in such a way that it will be clear to potential participants how your session will enhance their knowledge incorporating the tenets of adult learning theory. Ideally the abstract will include:
- Background and Motivation: What is the problem and why do you care about it?
- Methods or approach: describe your methodology for addressing the problem or issue in your session.
- Results or product: Summarize the key findings that will be presented, being as specific as possible.
- Conclusions and/or Implications: What is the take-home message and larger implications for the problem identified in your background/motivation?
Keep in mind that the academic quality of the meeting continues to rise, making the competition for speaking slots rather high. Substantially fewer than half of paper and session submissions can be accepted, and many good submissions must be declined. With this in mind, please take extra care to make your abstract clear, rigorous, and engaging—it is the only information on which the Program Committee can judge your work.
IMPORTANT NOTE; PLEASE READ THIS: To provide the greatest breadth of presenters at the annual meeting while still keeping the high quality of the meeting's content, we will have the following limits on presentations:
- A single person may only be listed on a total of FOUR (4) non-poster submissions as a presenter/moderator of a pre-conference course or general session or lead author/presenter of an oral paper. Please be sure to check with all potential co-authors to ensure that they are aware that they are being named as part of the session to help us maintain this limit. The system is unable to filter submissions, so this will be on an honor system (though we will review this data at the acceptance stage).
- A single person may only be listed as the first author on a total of THREE (3) poster submissions. Posters MUST be presented by the first author, and if the first author is unable to present, must be withdrawn.
APM Resources
Click here for detailed submission instructions
Click here for FAQs
Click here to read APM's Speaker Agreement
Preferred format for oral paper/poster abstracts
Tips for Writing Learning Objectives
Click here to read Writing Multiple Choice Questions
A good resource for writing an abstract:
Indian J Psychiatry (via US National Library of Medicine)
Submissions deadline: 11:59 pm EDT on Sunday, April 2, 2017
A submission must be complete, including disclosure filings from all associated speakers/authors, before it can be accepted for review - no exceptions. The deadline is firm and will not be extended.
It is the responsibility of the submitter to notify all co-authors or co-speakers of the requirement to complete disclosure reporting. For questions, please first start by reviewing the FAQs.
To Start
- Your APM membership login information will not work with this system.
- If this is the first time you are using the site, start by clicking 'Join Now' to create an account.
- If you submitted in 2014-2016 inclusive, there is likely already an account for you; use the 'Lost your access key' feature that appears above the 'Login' button to recover your access credentials. If you're unsure, try the 'Lost your access key' feature anyway and simply create a new account if one doesn't exist.
- You are not obligated to use an already-existing account; if you prefer, you can start a new one for APM 2017.