Fifth Annual AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference

April 30 - May 1, 2009 - Omni Shoreham Hotel - Washington, D.C.

Call for Abstracts

The AAMC is soliciting abstracts for presentations of research related to the physician workforce. The Conference Advisory Committee is particularly interested in research that informs workforce policy. Both quantitative and qualitative research will be considered.

Topics

The following is a list of topics of particular interest, although abstracts on other areas relevant to the physician workforce will also be considered.

Presentation Format

• Selected presentations will be grouped into 90-minute panels
• If accepted, presenters will have no more than 15-20 minutes for their presentation (depending on the number of other presenters in your panel)
• 30 minutes will be reserved for discussion
• Final copies of presentations due one month before the conference

Review Criteria

The selection committee is particularly interested in research that:

• Informs physician workforce policy
• Creatively uses existing data sources and/or analysis strategies
• Provides new data and information on the physician workforce

The committee will place higher preference on work that is already completed at the time of submission. If your presentation will involve data and/or analysis that will not be completed by the time you submit your abstract, please provide a timeline for completion and assurance that you will have completed your analysis and interpretation of results at least one month before the conference (when a copy of your final presentation will be due.)

The review process will be competitive. Abstracts not accepted for a panel presentation may be considered for a poster. The review committee will evaluate each abstract in a blinded review process using the following criteria:

• Relevance of the topic and potential contribution to the field
• Quality of the research and/or data analysis
• Originality and creativity in study design and/or analysis
• Quality of the writing and presentation

Submission Process

Applicants have the choice of submitting:

• a single abstract that (if accepted) will be assigned to a panel with others presenting on related topics, or
• a full panel of 3 - 4 presentations on a related topic.

Authors can submit papers presented elsewhere or published previously but priority goes to work that has not been published before.

To receive a link to the online submission tool, please send an email to: zberman@aamc.org (Available Dec. 8, 2008)

Reviewers appreciate brevity so please keep the abstract(s) to 500 words for an individual presentation or 1,500 words for a panel and include the following:

• Purpose of study/paper
• Data sources and study design
• Key findings
• Implications of findings and policy relevance
• Author(s) and funding (not part of word limit):
  • Author(s): if more than one indicate who will present the work
  • If work has been published or presented elsewhere, please describe circumstances.
  • Funding source for the study

Important Dates

• Online submission tool available Dec. 8, 2008. Send an e-mail to zberman@aamc.org to receive the link.
• Submissions are due by close of business, Jan. 9, 2009.

Questions

Contact Edward Salsberg, Director, Center for Workforce Studies, at 202-828-0415 or esalsberg@aamc.org.

Please note:

We regret that we cannot waive the registration fee or pay travel expenses for presenters. For your reference, the 2008 registration fee was $575; we anticipate the 2009 fee will be similar, though is yet to be determined.