The BGS needs poster assessors!

Will you be attending the BGS Spring 2003 meeting in Aberdeen? If so, have you thought about being a poster assessor?

Posters are the primary means of communicating current scientific research to the membership. As the number and categories of posters are increasing at every meeting, we need a large number of assessors. Presently, the categories are:

Bone, muscles & rheumatology
Biology & social gerontology
Cardiovascular
Clinical Practice
Clinical Effectiveness (new)
Diabetes
Eyes, ears and teeth
Epidemiology
Falls, fractures and trauma
Gastroenterology
Health Services Research
Incontinence
Law & Ethics
Neurology & Neuroscience
Parkinsons’ Disease
Pharmacology
Respiratory
Psychology/Psychiatry
Work in progresss
Stroke

Poster assessors work in pairs and assess a maximum of six posters (usually less) in one category. The poster assessment takes place in the morning coffee break and does not clash with any of the scientific sessions.

If you are interested (*), please send an e-mail to abstracts@bgs.org.uk stating which category or categories you would be interested in assessing.

Poster assessor instructions can be obtained from from the BGS office - Email: annette-guerda-fischer@bgs.org.uk

* At the moment we do not yet know the number of posters (and categories) needing to be assessed, as the deadline for submissions of abstracts is 1 December 2002.

Annette Guerda-Fischer
BGS Office

Clinical Effectiveness - A new category of poster

The Scientific Committee has approved the introduction of the new category of “Clinical Effectiveness” posters for BGS meetings. The aim is to enhance standards of care by promulgating work that demonstrates the implementation of research evidence into clinical practice.

The posters might include details of:

• guidelines
• audits that have been carried out and changes in practice that have resulted
• benchmarks of best or innovative practice
• datasets that have been used to monitor and improve care.

Details for abstract submission are circulated to the full membership twice a year, with the Newsletter, and are also available from the BGS website: www.bgs.org.uk.

Abstracts will be selected on the basis of the methodological soundness of the work carried out and the national relevance of the work. Abstracts will not be published in Age & Ageing. If however the innovation is successful, methods of wider dissemination of abstracts will be investigated.

BGS members are encouraged to consider whether they have work of national interest that they would like to submit for the Aberdeen Meeting, April 2003.

Jonathan Potter
Chairman
BGS Clinical Practice Evaluation Group