Guidelines for the conduct of ‘Case and case series presentation competition’ during Unmesh 2023, under the responsibility of Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Pune
- Eligibility criteria for the participants:
All UG, PG & Ph.D. students of all the constituent units of DPU Pune
- Rules and regulations of the competition:
- Definitions
- Case report: A single case
- Case series: A series of four or more cases
- Only original work is to be submitted, submission will be summarily rejected in case of detection of plagiarism.
- Case or case series previously presented anywhere is not eligible for the competition.
- Authorship: One presenter, one co presenter, only if the presenter is an UG student. The co presenter (if any) must be available to introduce the presentation & face the questions. The presenter or the co presenter must have been involved in treating the case (case series) planned to be presented
- Deadlines
- Last date of the abstracts: by 19th August 2024.
- Specifications of the abstract:
- Structured running abstract including:
- Title: Sentence case with a maximum of 100 characters including spaces
- Presenters & their affiliations
- Background:why the case (case series) should be presented and its novelty
- Case (case series) presentation: a brief description of the patient’s clinical and demographic details, the diagnosis, any interventions and the outcomes
- Conclusions:a brief summary of the clinical impact or potential implications of case (case series)
- Keywords: 3 to 5
- Section headings to be in italics & not in a bold font.
- Word limit: up to 350 words excluding the title and presenter affiliations & key words
- Font: Times New Roman
- Font Size: 14
- Spacing: Double
- Submission of the abstract:
- Soft copy (MS Word as well as PDF) to be submitted along with the consent for publication, by 5 pm on 04 Apr 2023.
- Consent for publication: The presenter (s) must consent to publication of the abstract in souvenir or special issue of a journal by submitting a soft copy of a separate declaration in the given format.
- Format of the declaration to be submitted:
Declaration
- The case report or case series titled____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ is proposed to be presented by me/us on 12 April 2023, in the 'Case report and case series presentation competition' to be held at Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Pune, during Unmesh 2023, the two days annual scientific event for the students of DPU Pune.
- I / we were actively involved in management of the case (s)
- This has never been presented elsewhere earlier.
- I / we give my/our irrevocable consent for publication of the abstract in event souvenir or any journal.
Presenter: Signature, Name & Date_____________________________________
Co- presenter: Signature, Name & Date__________________________________
- Presentation of the shortlisted case/ case series
- Power point presentation only
- Headings: same as in the abstract, plus photographs & references in Vancouver style
- Photographs in JPG format only & of a good quality
- The presentation not to be larger than 20 MB
- Allocation of time for presentation
- Presentation: 8 minutes
- Discussion: 2 minutes
- Evaluation criteria:
Winner & runners up will be decided after evaluations of the presentations will be evaluated as follows, maximum points being 50:
- Content: 20 points
- Punctuality regarding the time allotted for the presentation: 05 points
- Presentation & audience response: 10 points
- Discussion with the judges: 15 points
- Venue: The auditorium of Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Pimpri.
- Judges: As appointed appointed by DPU Pune
- Event documentation: The event will be documented for records, by the following means:
- Geotagged photography
- Videography