Leading

Innovation and Change

Celebrating Generalism:

36th Annual MeetingWednesday through Saturday April 24-27, 2013 Sheraton Denver Downtown Denver, Colorado

Call for• Scientific abstracts • Clinical Vignettes• Innovations in Medical Education• Clinical Practice Innovations• Submissions from medical students,

residents and fellows are encouraged

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 8:59 aM Eastern Time

ThEMEThe 2013 SGIM annual meeting will be a celebration of all the things that make generalism the most diverse, inspiring and rewarding discipline in medicine. As generalists, we have broad interests spanning innumerable areas within practice, research, education, policy, and beyond. As such, we are ideally positioned to be leaders of innovation and change for our patients, our institutions, and for healthcare nationally and globally. The 2013 meeting will be an excellent venue for generalists to showcase innovation, share new discoveries, identify opportunities for collaboration, develop relationships, and build networks. We enthusiastically welcome submissions pertaining to all topics of interest to generalists in the broadest sense. This year, in keeping with the meeting theme, special emphasis will be placed upon leadership, especially the development of emerging leaders within generalism.

DENVER

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Web-based submissionsThe SGIM annual meeting is managed online through ScholarOne.

Instructions and the link to the login page are available at www.sgim.org/go/aM13.

The submission website is http://SGIM2013.abstractcentral.com

n Every author and co-author must have or create a ScholarOne account.

n You will need to create your ScholarOne account before you can initiate a submission.

n This account includes contact information and a disclosure of dual commitments.

n We publish exactly what is entered. Please check for spelling and capitalization; do not use nicknames.

n Make sure everyone involved has a ScholarOne account before you submit.

n Accounts carry over from one year to the next. Do not create a new account for yourself or anyone else unless you absolutely know they have not participated in an SGIM Annual Meeting submission at any time.

n This is not the same system used for SGIM regional meeting submissions.

n ScholarOne accounts “attached” to any other purpose than the SGIM meeting will not work for this purpose, only SGIM-related accounts in ScholarOne can be used.

ScholarOne accounts require the following information. Examples are given only as examples…there are no drop down fields.

Salutation Dr./Ms./Mr./etc.

First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name

Suffix Jr./Esq./VI (not a degree)

Degree MD/MPH/MSPH/PhD

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Email only one is allowed

Institution

Department

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City

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State (Province/Territory) this field will change depending on what country you enter

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Role Request Identify each and every SGIM submission type with which you might become involved

Conflict of Interest/ Disclosure Statement Must be updated every year

Submissions supported by commercial funds are required to select “Poster Only” as their preferred presentation format. Poster sessions do not offer CME credits. Disclosure of commercial support must be included on your poster. Do not wait to submit at the last minute. The online submission process should take about 45 minutes, but as with all new procedures, it may take you a bit more time than you anticipate, and unfamiliar technology can frequently be challenging. Do not assume the website is totally intuitive; we actually recommend you read the submission instructions before you start your submission.

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Submission Fee Schedule Submission fees are not refundable.Abstract, IME, CPI Submission Fees (no increase since 2004)$75 US through December 19, 2012$85 US December 19, 2012 – January 9, 2013

Clinical Vignette Submission Fees$50 US through December 19, 2012$60 US December 15 – January 9, 2013

Acceptable forms of payment include credit card or check.Credit Card (MasterCard/VISA) Payment PreferredPersonal and Institutional checks will be accepted.

Sending in a check? Make sure you include the submission Control Identification Number(s) in the memo field of the check.

Email CommunicationAll correspondence will be conducted by email (only), with a return address of gartens@sgim.org.

Some e-mail providers use filters to ensure that users DO NOT receive spam ( junk e-mail).

In some cases these filters can prevent important e-mails sent from gartens@sgim.org from getting through to you.To ensure you receive your SGIM Annual Meeting emails, add sgim.org to your address book or Safe List.Check with your institutional IT Department if you need assistance. If you have not received an email regarding your submission by February 26, 2013 email Sarajane Garten, SGIM Director of Meetings (Gartens@sgim.org); be prepared to provide an alternate email address if possible.

Important Dates All deadlines are indicated in Eastern Time

November 28, 2012 Online Submission Opens (target date)

December 19, 2012 at 8:59 aM Eastern Time: Reduced Submission Fee Period Ends

December 19, 2012 between 9:00 am – 12:00 noon Eastern Time: Submission Site closed

December 19, 2012 at 12:01 PM Eastern Time: Submission Fee Increases

January 9, 2013 at 8:59 aM Eastern Time: Submission Deadline

february 21, 2013: Acceptance Notifications Emailed (target date)

Submission decisions will be emailed on or about February 21, 2013. These emails will include scheduling information. If your submission is accepted, you will have one week from the date of our email acceptance notification to inform us if you are not able to present the session.

Meeting Schedule/ Scheduling RestrictionsScheduling of all annual meeting presentations is at the discretion of the Program Committee.

The online submission process includes a step that allows you to identify scheduling restrictions. Submitting authors should use this step to identify the days and times of all SGIM Annual Meeting workshop(s) or interest group(s) in which you are serving as faculty OR if religious observance precludes presenting on a certain day. If your submission is accepted, you will need to inform SGIM if you cannot present the session within one week of the acceptance email being sent.

Presentation formatYou will be asked to identify if you have a presentation preference. SGIM schedules accepted submissions based on the results of the peer review process. The most highly rated submissions are scheduled for an oral presentation followed by those rated highly enough for presentation as posters. If you stipulate “oral presentation only” and your submission is only ranked highly enough for a poster presentation, you will receive a rejection notification. Similarly, one year the most highly rated submission was flagged for “poster only” when it would have been presented in the opening plenary session. We recommend stipulating “no preference”, as it will increase the likelihood of your submission being accepted.

Submissions funded through direct commercial support should select “poster only” as their choice, as poster sessions do not offer CME credit hours.

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Important Reminder: Submissions funded through direct commercial support MUST select “poster only” as their choice, as poster sessions do not offer CME credit hours. SGIM does not allow nor will we schedule submissions funded through direct commercial support in any session offering CME credit; i.e.: oral presentation.

Submission Lengthn Submissions are limited to a maximum character

count of 3500 (approximately 500 words), not including section headings (e.g., background or learning objectives).

n DO NOT type in section headers (background, results, etc) as part of your submission.

n No tables, figures, or images may be included in Vignette or Innovation submissions.

n Scientific abstract submissions may include no more than 2 tables or figures (for a limit of two graphics per submission). See specifics on size of graphics in scientific abstract section of this document.

Audio-Visual EquipmentEach oral presentation meeting room will have a computer (Microsoft environment – no MAC computers) and a computer projector. You simply need to bring your “slide” presentation on a flash/thumb drive with you to Denver, and hand it off to the AV staff in the Plaza Court Room 2 the day before your presentation. Details will be provided to accepted presenters.

Disclosure of Dual CommitmentsSGIM requires all presenting authors to comply with the SGIM Policy on Dual Commitments. Every submission co-author should create a ScholarOne account. This is where disclosure/conflict of interest information is identified. SGIM will contact each presenting author disclosing commercial external funding in order to resolve conflicts of interest. When conflicts of interest cannot be resolved CME credit will be withheld from the session.

Disclosure information is provided by SGIM to attendees in all print and electronic meeting materials. Presenting authors with commercial funds supporting their work are required to disclose that relationship at the beginning of their oral presentation or on their poster.

A copy of the SGIM Policy on Dual Commitments is available on our website.

Annual Meeting Presenter Registration PoliciesHave you noticed?????The SGIM annual meeting is produced without commercial funding. We do not allow exhibits, pharmaceutical support, satellite symposia, or even a tote bag with a corporate logo on it. This is in keeping with the expressed wishes of our membership.

How do we do it? By having everyone - both those presenting and those not presenting at the meeting - register and pay to attend at the fees set by the SGIM Council. All presenters are required to register and pay the appropriate annual meeting registration fee.

Publication Policies and ProceduresThe Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) is an official publication of SGIM. SGIM expects to publish all scientific abstracts, clinical vignettes, Innovations in Medical Education and Innovations in Practice Management submissions accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting in an electronic supplement to JGIM. SGIM reserves the right to exclude any abstract deemed inappropriate for publication.

EligibilityNo paper may be presented at the SGIM National Meeting if it has been published or accepted for publication either in article or abstract form prior to the abstract submission deadline. Papers under review at the time of the submission deadline but not yet

accepted for publication, even if appearing before the meeting, are eligible for presentation. No abstract may be submitted more than once to the national SGIM meeting, either in different years or as more than one abstract in the same year. This does not preclude submitting to both the regional and national SGIM meetings or submitting separate abstracts featuring different analyses or other significantly different aspects of a single dataset, merely the submission of essentially the same abstract more than once to the national meeting. Authors are not required to be SGIM members.

Press Coverage Oral and poster sessions are open to the press.

ProofreadingYou are responsible for entering accurate information into this submission. This is easiest if all your co-authors have created a ScholarOne® personal profile that your “attach” to your submission. If you must manually enter information into an online submission remember that the information will be published exactly as you enter it. Please check capitalization, spelling and use of complete names with degrees. Do not enter nicknames. Bill might prefer that you enter his name as William; Betsy might prefer Elizabeth in a professional situation. Please make sure you spell the word “University” correctly; and that you enter the formal name of an institution. Examples: University of California, San Francisco and not UCSF; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School instead of RWJMS; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis instead of IUPUI.

PolICIES

Scientific AbstractsScientific abstracts report the results of original research and must contain data (either quantitative or qualitative) and report research results. Scientific abstracts can address a broad range of topics, including clinical epidemiology, health services research, health policy, health economics, social science, education, medical ethics, and others.

Scientific abstracts must conform to the following organization:

Background should describe the context and importance of the study and state the objective(s) of the study.

Methods should include a description of the methods used including study design, setting, population, measures, and analytic procedures.

Results should describe the results in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. Tabular or graphic results are acceptable. It is not satisfactory to state, “The results will be discussed” or “Other data will be presented”. Abstracts that do not provide actual results will not be considered for publication or presentation.

Conclusions should state the implications of the findings for clinical practice, research, education, or policy.

Scientific Abstracts submissions must identify one (1) submission category.

Scientific Abstract Submission CategoriesAging/Geriatrics/End of Life: submissions addressing issues of care of older adults and of issues related to aging and/or end-of-life care decisions regardless of patient age.

Organization of Care and Chronic Disease Management: submissions with a focus on organization of health care delivery, patient-centered medical home, strategies to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of a medical practice system, management of one or more chronic diseases, or broader perspectives on disease management, such as complementary and alternative medicine practices.

Clinical Decision-Making and Economic Analyses: submissions about clinical decision-making; formal decision analyses of medical practice; shared patient-physician decision making; patient preferences or utilities; and cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses of specific interventions.

Clinical Epidemiology/Healthcare Effectiveness Research: submissions with a focus on the investigation and control of the distribution and determinants of disease in clinical populations. Submissions with a focus on the evaluation of effectiveness of therapies or interventions in clinical care settings.

Global Health/Preparedness: submissions that address global public health issues (such as chronic disease management in developing countries, global epidemics, and emerging pathogens) and the role of general internal medicine in addressing these issues.

Health Disparities/Vulnerable Populations: submissions devoted to the health and health care of underserved and special populations, health disparities, and health literacy.

Health Policy/Advocacy/Social Justice: submissions that focus on advocacy and issues of import to generalists that impact health policy at local, state/province, and national levels.

SUbMISSIoN TyPES

The online submission process requires that you identify a submission type. In the ScholarOne® system these are called roles. Each is distinct, as described below. You cannot change the submission type once you initiate the online submission ScholarOne® process. Therefore, please determine the most appropriate submission type for your work in advance.

Hospital-based Medicine: studies that focus on the care of hospitalized patients, the inpatient care of medical conditions, and the role and effectiveness of hospitalists and hospital-based systems.

Medical Education Scholarship and Professional Development: submissions that focus on issues related to medical education: needs assessment, curricular design, curricular implementation, and outcomes assessment in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education; Submissions that address issues that impact career development, satisfaction, and balance between personal and professional life in medical personnel.

Medical Humanities and Ethics: submissions that focus on areas as diverse as the history of medicine, literature, clinical ethics, philosophy, theology and/or spirituality in medicine.

Mental Health/Substance Abuse: submissions addressing mental health and substance abuse from educational, research or clinical perspectives. This includes a broad range of substances – alcohol, tobacco, both prescription and non-prescription drugs in addition to street drugs.

Preventive Medicine: submissions that address disease prevention, early detection, and health promotion, including screening, case finding, health habits and beliefs, and interventions to improve these areas.

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Qualitative Research: submissions that use non-numeric methods (such as focus groups or in-depth interviews) to explore issues in health services research, educational process and outcomes, health care delivery, quality of care, and faculty development.

Quality of Care/Patient Safety: submissions that focus on quality assessment, gaps in quality of care, medical errors, quality improvement, and patient safety in the inpatient or outpatient setting.

Women’s Health: submissions addressing issues and conditions specific to or important to women.

Secondary Submission Categories optional, you may only choose one – do not duplicate your primary category. Secondary categories do not impact peer review committee assignments. The program committee reserves the right to use a secondary category selection in scheduling.

Cancer Research Ethics GeriatricsWomen’s HealthVA-based Research

Example: if your primary category is women’s health, do not select women’s health as your secondary category. If your primary category is Preventive Medicine and your secondary category is women’s health, it may be scheduled in a women’s health area of a poster session.)

Additional Information you will be asked as part of your scientific abstract submission:

Award EligibilityThree Mack Lipkin, Sr. Associate Member Awards will be given to the Associate Members whose abstracts are judged highest. Eligible candidates must be an SGIM Associate Member (Student, Resident, or Fellow), must be first author of an abstract submitted for the Annual National Meeting, and must have had a major role in the work being submitted. Eligible candidates should identify their eligibility for these awards during the online submission process.

Three Milton W. Hamolsky Awards will be given to Junior Faculty whose abstracts are judged to be the most outstanding among those submitted by Junior Faculty members of SGIM. Eligible candidates ( junior faculty who are in their first 2 years of a faculty appointment) should identify their eligibility for these awards during the online submission process and provide the additional information required.

Quality and Patient Safety Abstract Award All abstracts submitted in the Quality and Patient Safety category and accepted for oral presentation are eligible for consideration. Oral presentations will be judged by a panel of SGIM members.

Clinical Vignette AwardOne award will be presented in 2013. Finalists will be scheduled in a special oral presentation session on Thursday, April 28. All clinical vignette submissions accepted for presentation are eligible.

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Graphics Scientific abstract submissions (only) may include no more than 2 tables or figures (for a limit of two graphics per submission). Graphics should be compact and used only to display essential results, where textual presentation would be less efficient. Large tables and figures intended for use in an oral or poster presentation are not appropriate for abstract submissions. Formatting your graphics for importing into your online submission:

.tiff format 300 dpi halftone 600 dpi with text600 dpi combine halftone and text (embedded text)1200 dpi bitmap (pure text and lines (b/w))

.eps format 300/600/1200 dpi objects combine embedded images and vectorMaximum size: 3x3 inches

Important Reminder: Each graphic will count against the overall character count, proportionate to the size of the graphic. The larger the graphic, the fewer words can be included. If a graphic is too large, you will be notified immediately— either scale the image down or reattach a

Joint SGIM-American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (AACH) Abstract SessionContact Person: Somnath Saha MD, MPH sahas@ohsu.edu

The mission of the Academy is to improve the quality of care by enhancing healthcare communication and collaborative relationships through education and applied research. Abstract submissions appropriate for consideration at the joint SGIM- AACH abstract session include observational and interventional studies pertaining to patient-physician communication, shared decision-making, patient-centered care, relationship-centered care, the patient-physician relationship, and other healthcare communication strategies, including use of the Internet and intercultural communication strategies to improve quality of care. Studies incorporating innovative methods to teach medical interviewing and communication skills are also appropriate.

Joint SGIM- Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM) Abstract Session Contact Person: Allison B. Rosen MD, MPH, ScD allison.rosen@UmassMed.edu

The Society for Medical Decision Making’s mission is to improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive systematic approaches to clinical decision-making and policy-formation in health care by providing a scholarly forum that connects and educates researchers, providers, policy-makers, and the public. The Society’s diverse membership includes trainees to senior researchers as well as educators, clinicians, managers, and policy makers and has significant overlap with SGIM. Appropriate research topics are in the areas of Physician Cognition and Behavior, Judgment and Decision Making, Attitudes and Preferences, Decision Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Research that presents new methods or new applications of existing methods will be emphasized. See the society’s homepage (www.smdm.org) for more information about SMDM.

JoINT abSTraCT SESSIoNS

In addition to indicating submission categories, please indicate whether you believe your abstract is suitable for one (and only one) of the following joint oral abstract sessions. This will neither increase nor decrease your chances for acceptance or the scheduling of an oral presentation. The mission of each society will help you determine whether your research would be appropriate for any of these sessions.

Abstract Review ProcessPanels of SGIM member volunteers will review all submissions. Reviewers will be blinded to author(s) and institution(s) during the review process. Scientific abstract submissions will be ranked using the following criteria:

1. Importance of the research question to the general internal medicine community. Priority will be for abstracts that introduce new concepts or shed light on or conclusively answer research questions important to general internists

2. Strength and appropriateness of the methods to the research question

3. Validity of the conclusions/implications with respect to the research findings. Do the results reported support the conclusions and implications?

4. Innovative methods or new area of inquiry5. Clarity and conciseness of the writing

Clinical vignettes should n Describe clinical conditions that illustrate unique or

important teaching points.

n Provide insight into clinical practice, education, or research in either outpatient or hospital settings

n Illustrate important clinical problems commonly encountered by internists, such as diagnostic, therapeutic, or management dilemmas, including those complicated by factors such as low health literacy or language barriers

n Clinical vignettes should include a discussion of relevant literature, as if submitting the vignette for peer-reviewed publication, but they are not meant for presentation of scientific or research data.

Clinical vignettes must conform to the following organizationLearning Objective(s) Up to two focused learning objectives, stating what the physician should be able to do with case information. Objectives are action-oriented and should begin with words such as recognize, diagnose, assess, treat, distinguish or manage. They should NOT begin with terms like know how to or understand.

Examples:

• Diagnose hip fracture when the plain x-rays are normal

• Recognize the clinical features of anorexia and bulimia in a male

• Assess health literacy in at risk populations

Case Briefly summarize the case presentation. Include HPI, pertinent positives, negatives, key PMH/SHx/FHx/Meds, key physical exam, diagnostic studies, interventions. Highlight key elements from clinical course.

Discussion A concise discussion, highlighting important facts or teaching points gleaned from the case and/or review of the literature. Authors should use the learning objectives and discussion to illustrate the unique teaching points, as if submitting the vignette for peer reviewed publication.

ClINICal VIGNETTES

Clinical vignettes are patient-related cases and scenarios that have educational value for a wider audience. These clinical vignettes should be based on patients for whom at least one of the author(s) had cared during the course of the patient’s illness.

Submission CategoriesAuthors must choose ONE submission category. This selection will NOT be known to vignette reviewers; categories are used to help organize presentation scheduling.

Clinical Vignette Submission Categories (choose one)

Cardiovascular Disease Endocrinology and MetabolismGastroenterology and HepatologyHematology/OncologyImmunology/RheumatologyInfectious DiseasesMedication-related ComplicationsMental Health/Substance Abuse/Chronic PainNephrologyNeurologyPulmonary and Critical Care MedicineOther: (open text field, please describe in ≤ 30 characters, including spaces)

Secondary Submission Categories (choose only one)

Cancer ResearchEthicsGeriatricsWomen’s Health

Vignette Review CriteriaAll clinical vignettes will be judged on the following criteria by a panel of independent reviewers:

Teaching Value Offers an important diagnosis, physical examination, or management pearl

Relevance to General Internal Medicine Describes impact on clinical practice in internal medicine, teaching/education, or future research, places case in context

Overall Assessment Overall evidence of scholarship, potential for publication.

Clinical Practice Innovations (CPI)CPI submissions address improvements in the delivery of healthcare in outpatient, inpatient, or community-based settings. Topics include quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, implementation of innovative clinical programs (e.g., medical home and chronic care delivery models), applied informatics in healthcare, systems engineering, translating research into practice, methods to effect changes in clinicians’ behavior, and strategies to enhance cost-effectiveness. Unlike scientific abstracts, CPI submissions are not required to have complete evaluation data but should include a discussion of proposed metrics. This can include qualitative or quantitative measures. Submissions with evaluation data, whether qualitative or quantitative, may receive higher ratings. Submissions should include enough information about the intervention that session attendees can evaluate reproducibility and feasibility of the intervention at their practice or community.

Clinical Practice Innovations must conform to the following organization:n Statement of Problem or Question (one sentence)

n Objectives of Program/Intervention (no more than three objectives)

n Description of Program/Intervention, including organizational context (e.g., inpatient vs. outpatient, practice or community characteristics)

n Measures of success (discuss qualitative or quantitative metrics that will be used to evaluate program/intervention)

n Findings to Date (it is not sufficient to state “findings will be discussed”)

n Key Lessons for Dissemination (what can others take away for implementation to their practice or community?)

ClINICal PraCTICE INNoVaTIoNS (CPI)

CPI Review ProcessPanels of SGIM member volunteers will review all submissions. Reviewers will be blinded to author(s) and institution(s) during the review process. Clinical Practice Innovations submissions will be ranked using the following criteria

1. Relevance/Importance (Saliency of topic to clinical practice of general internal medicine)

2. Creativity/Originality (Nature of problem addressed, intervention, and process by which arrived at intervention)

3. Methods (Intervention design and qualitative or quantitative methods used to assess impact of intervention on stated outcomes of interest)

4. Feasibility/Generalizability of applying results in other institutions (organizational context, complexity, cost, resource utilization are described, as appropriate)

INNoVaTIoNS IN MEDICal EDUCaTIoN (IME)

Innovations In Medical Education (IME)IME submissions showcase innovative scholarly activities in medical education that are currently in progress or that have been completed. The hallmark of an innovation is that the idea is new and meets an important need in medical education. Projects for submission include, among others, the development, implementation, or evaluation of innovative courses, curricula, assessments, simulations, virtual patients, resources, Web-based tools, or interdisciplinary collaborations. Projects may be presented without complete evaluation data. IME sessions are designed to stimulate collaboration and creative thinking among meeting attendees.

Authors are required to identify their submission as belonging to one or more descriptive submission categories from the list below. Submissions may optionally include a website URL that reviewers and conference participants can use to access online resources such as a course syllabus, assessment instrument, implementation guide, or complete Web-based course. This URL must be accessible to the public, or guest login information must be provided and valid for at least two weeks after the last day of the conference. The URL will count in word/character counts. Except for submissions tagged as Web innovations, the content of this URL will not be considered in submission decisions. For Web-based education submissions, reviewers will access the URL if provided and will consider the website as part of the review process; Web innovations without a URL will be judged solely on the submitted text.

Submission StructureInnovations in Medical Education submissions should be organized as follows:

Needs and objectivesSetting and participantsDescriptionEvaluationDiscussion / reflection / lessons learnedOnline resource URL (optional)

IME Submission CategoriesIME submissions must identify a minimum of one and a maximum of two categories.

Continuing education (CME)Curriculum developmentLearner assessmentMedical student education (UGME)Patient safetyPostgraduate education (GME)ProfessionalismProgram administrationProgram evaluationQuality improvementSimulation-based educationTeaching pedagogy/learning theoryTeamsWeb-based educationOther (please specify)

IME Review ProcessPanels of SGIM member volunteers will review all submissions. As much as possible, submissions will be matched with reviewers’ expertise based on author-indicated category(ies). Reviewers will be blinded to author(s) and institution(s) during the review process. IME submissions will be ranked using the following criteria

1. Clear goals (Are objectives clear, measurable, and appropriate for the target audience?)

2. Appropriate methods (Are teaching method(s) appropriate to meet defined objectives? Are assessment measures adequate to evaluate outcomes? For technology-enhanced innovations, is the technology appropriate for the objectives, implemented effectively, and user-friendly?)

3. Degree of innovation (Is this work truly innovative, i.e. do authors show that it is a novel concept or an implementation not done elsewhere? Does it fill an unmet need? )

4. Potential for Impact (Is it more than an adaptation to local needs? Is the innovation feasible elsewhere? Does the abstract convey how the innovation can be implemented? Is there reflection on lessons learned, and what may be valuable to others?)

Darcy A. Reed, MD, MPH, ChairDavid C. Thomas, MD, MHPE, Co-Chair

ABIM SEP Session Coordinator Eric H. Green, MD

Clinical Practice Innovations Michael Weiner, MD, MPH, Chair Laura Loertscher, MD, Co-Chair

Clinical Updates Andrea L. Sikon, MD, Chair Eric Rosenberg, MD, MSPH, Co-Chair

Clinical Vignettes Lawrence Ward, MD, MPH, Chair Kristy S. Deep, MD, MA, Co-Chair

Evaluations Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, MD, Chair Irene Alexandraki, MD, MPH, Co-Chair

Innovations in Medical Education Kelley White, MD, Co-Chair Michael J. Rosenblum, MD, Co-Chair

Mentoring Program Lisa M. Vinci, MD, Chair Raj T. Sehgal, MD, Co-Chair

ProGraM CoMMITTEE

Precourses Andrew P. Wilper, MD, MPH, Chair Yvette M. Cua, MD, Co-Chair

Scheduling Jeffrey L. Jackson, MD, MPH, Co-Chair Ellen F. Yee, MD, MPH, Co-Chair

Scientific Abstracts Kathlyn E. Fletcher, MD, MA, Chair Gail L. Daumit, MD, MHS, Co-Chair

Special Symposia Michael Steinman MD, Chair Sondra Zabar, MD, Co-Chair

Students, Residents, Fellows Programming Ryan R. Kraemer, MD, Chair Lauren Block, MD, Co-Chair

Workshops Geraldine E. Menard, MD, Chair Auguste H. Fortin, VI, MD, MPH, Co-Chair