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Roundtable Submission Guidelines

The AUGS PFD Week Planning Committee is excited to open the call for pre-conference workshops for PFD Week 2025 in Vancouver, Canada. Roundtables are intended to be facilitated 60-min in-person discussions on a topic of the facilitator’s choosing. The role of the facilitator is to share information/perspectives, create talking points, and engage attendees in discussions either through case studies or Q&A or both. Facilitators may provide their own handouts or show a presentation on their laptops. No formal presentation is required.

All roundtable presenters are required to adhere to the guidelines below, so please review prior to submitting your proposal.

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• If you remember the email address and access key used from the previous year, you may log in using those same login credentials.
• If you do not remember your access key, you will need to create a new account. The "Lost your access key?" option is only applicable for the current event and does not work for users from previous years.

Submission Guidelines

• All presenters are required to register for PFD Week.
• The facilitator will receive and respond to all notifications and communications related to the accepted roundtable(s) via e-mail communication mid-March 2025.
• Typically, a roundtable is facilitated by one leader, but the committee is open to two leaders if this is explained in the submission.
• The format for the roundtables is up to the facilitators. Some topics lend themselves to formal presentation with didactic teaching, but many topics may best be approached with group participation. In this latter setting, your role will be to facilitate the discussion, get the conversation started, and move it along if necessary. Case discussions have been very successful for many topics.
  
  

Submission Criteria

• Title: Should be clear, compelling, and as concise as possible.
• Description/Outline: Not to exceed 200 words. Please include a description of why you think this topic is of interest, why the roundtable is a good format, and who the intended audience is. Please also include a brief description of your expertise or passion in this area.
• Learning Objectives: Provide 1 and no more than 3 learning objectives that are clear, measurable, and achievable. Frame your objectives as "After completing this session, learners will be able to...".
• Facilitator Information: Name, contact information (email and cell phone), and affiliation.
• Financial Relationships Disclosure: AUGS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). To participate as a person who will be able to control the educational content of this accredited CE activity, ALL roundtable presenters are asked to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies over the past 24 months.
  
  

AUGS education programs are learning experiences and are noncommercial. Under no circumstances should a preconference workshop presentation be used for direct promotion of a speaker's product, service, or other self-interest.

Acceptance/Rejection Notifications

You will be notified electronically of the acceptance/rejection of your roundtable on or around mid-March 2025. This notification will include the date and time of the session/presentation if accepted.