AAOMPT 2008 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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The 13th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists will be held October 30 to November 2, 2008, in Seattle, WA.. Interested individuals are invited to submit abstracts of original research for presentation in platform (oral presentation) or poster format. The AAOMPT research committee chairman, H. James Phillips, must receive the abstract via e-mail by June 1, 2008. Abstracts received after this date will be returned. You will be notified of the acceptance/rejection of your abstract in July. If you have any questions call the research committee chairman at (201) 370 7195 or via . For additional organization information, check our website, www.aaompt.org.
Content. The Academy is soliciting all avenues of research inquiry from case-report and case-series up to clinical trials. The Academy is particularly interested in research evaluating intervention strategies using randomized-controlled clinical trials. The abstract should include 1) Purpose; 2) Subjects; 3) Method; 4) Analyses; 5) Results; 6) Conclusions; 7) Clinical Relevance.
Publication. The accepted abstracts will be published in The Journal of Manual& Manipulative Therapy, which has hardcopy readership in over 40 countries, and on-line publication.
Submission Format. The format for the submitted abstracts is as follows:
The abstract must be submitted by email in MS Word format to the research committee chairman (philliho@shu.edu). The abstract should fit on one page with a one-inch margin all around. The text should be typed as one continuous paragraph. Type the title of the research in ALL CAPS at the top of the page followed by the authors’ names. Immediately following the names, type the institution, city, and state where the research was done. Please include a current email address where you can be contacted.
Presentation. The presentation of the accepted research will be in either a slide or poster session, at the discretion of the Research Committee. The slide session will be limited to 10 minutes followed by a 5-minute discussion; this session will be primarily for research reports and randomized clinical trials. The poster session will include a viewing and question answer period and will be primarily for case report/series.
Presentation Awards. The platform and poster presentations deemed of the highest quality of those presented at the annual conference will be awarded the AAOMPT Richard Erhard Excellence in Research Award (platform), and the AAOMPT Outstanding Case Report (poster). The awards include free tuition for the AAOMPT conference the following year.
H. James Phillips, PT, PhD, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT
Seton Hall University
S. Orange, NJ 07079
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