Please note that you can submit your abstract online from 21 September to 29 October 2009 - submissions after 5pm will not be accepted

Abstracts will only be accepted via the online submission facility located through the below link and by clicking on the icon in the top right hand corner of this page. You will be promted with instructions as you go through the process. In order to use this system you must register and can do this when opening up the below link.

CRA submission is now closed 

If you have any questions about clinical research abstracts please contact Helen Field on h.field@bsava.com or telephone 01452 726705

The Clinical Research Abstracts are a valuable feature of Congress. They consist of a series of 12-minute oral presentations (plus 3 minutes for discussion) on recent research into various aspects of clinical medicine and surgery.

In addition to clinical research, preliminary findings and unique case reports of exceptional interest are also considered, and papers from practitioners are particularly welcome. Experimental animal studies are only considered if it is clear that they conform to the U.K. Home Office requirements. Accepted abstracts are published in the Congress Proceedings.

The Congress Committee awards prizes for the best abstracts presented by a resident or post-graduate student in the general areas of medicine and surgery, and a separate prize for practitioners.

All CRA's will be peer-reviewed, and if accepted the submitting author will be offered free registration for the entire congress if the submitting author is a BSAVA member, or if the submitting author is not a BSAVA member, for the day of presentation of the abstract only.  Registration is non-transferable.  The reviewers’ decision is final, and if the abstract is not accepted, feedback will not be given. Abstracts which state “results will be presented” will be rejected.

You are welcome to submit more than one abstract
Clinical research abstracts are a valued and integral part of Congress and run concurrently with the main scientific programme on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th April 2010
 
Presentation of a Clinical Research Abstract at Congress 2010 will entitle the presenting author to free registration:
- BSAVA member: full Congress
- Non-member of the BSAVA: day of presentation only
There will be prizes awarded for the best resident/graduate student abstracts in Medicine and Surgery and the best abstract presented by a veterinary surgeon in practice
There are no poster presentations

Notes for submitting:
1. The abstract must be submitted by the presenting author

2. Abstracts must be written in U.K. English

3. Content must not exceed 385 words. It is strongly recommended that you prepare the title and content of your abstract using a word processor, and copy and paste this text into the online submission facility. Typographical errors will not be corrected, and abstracts which are poorly presented will be rejected.  It is advisable that your word document only contains ‘normal’ text – not formatted in ‘headings’ etc.

4. Do NOT include references in the abstract

5. Abstracts must NOT have been presented elsewhere prior to presentation at Congress.  Papers, reports or articles containing the work submitted in the abstract must not have been submitted or accepted for publication prior to submission of the abstract.  If the submitting author breeches these conditions, CRAs from that author will be automatically rejected for the following 3 years.  The submitting author will also be required to a pay for registration to Congress

6. The presenting author must be available to present the abstract on any date during the congress: changes cannot be made to the timetable to accommodate individuals

7. The presentation at congress must concentrate on the data in the abstract: particularly, presenters who present material other than the abstract submitted will be asked to leave the podium

8. Registration cannot be transferred from the presenting author to another individual

9. Specific advertising of products by presenters must not occur

Formatting of CRA titles and content
It is strongly recommended that you prepare the title and content of your abstract using a word processor, for example Microsoft Word, and copy and paste this text into the online submission facility (when available). This assumes you are using Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer version 6 or above, however the online submission facility should work on other operating systems and browsers. If you do experience any difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact us.