Abstract Submission General
Please follow the corresponding guidelines for the abstract submission!
Abstracts will be published online at German Medical Science.
Abstract submission for Free Papers / ePosters
Start: October 2022
End: The deadline for abstract submission is April 16, 2023
Abstract submission instructions
General instructions for the submission of abstracts.Please follow the guidelines below to write your abstract!
Free papers as well as ePosters are accepted from the entire field of ophthalmic surgery and are categorized. Please assign your abstract when submitting online.
Since only a limited number of Free Papers and ePosters can be accepted, the respective committee will make a selection.
The abstracts will be published online at GMS.
Registration of Free Paper and ePosters is only possible online via the abstract submission page. In case of any problem, the abstract can also be submitted by email (stadelmeyer@mcn-nuernberg.de).
Deadline for submission: April 16, 2023.
Submission of a FreePaper or ePoster requires participation at the 35th International Congress of German Ophthalmic Surgery.
Free Paper
Speech times of 5 minutes each are planned for the presentations (followed by 2 minutes of discussion). In addition, we kindly ask you to consider that the speaking time has to be respected and that if the time is exceeded, the presentation will be interrupted.
The following technical equipment is available:
- PC projection
The best free paper per department will be awarded by the chairmen at the end of the respective session!
ePoster
ePosters can be submitted on an ophthalmic surgery/ophthalmology topic.
ePosters must be PowerPoint presentations with a maximum of 5 slides. Embedded video clips are allowed, but the total time of the PowerPoint presentation cannot exceed 5 minutes.
ePosters will be available to all participants at poster terminals throughout the DOC. There will be no official presentation.
The ePosters will be evaluated by the DOC poster committee and a prize will be awarded for the best ePoster.
The awarding of the best ePoster will take place on Friday, June 16th, 2023, during the General Session.
The ePosters will be available on poster terminals connected to a 52-inch LCD screen as well as a touch screen.
The five Power Point slides are to be presented in landscape format with an aspect ratio of "16 to 9" for the presentation.
Drafting guidelines for abstracts
Since publication of the papers online is planned, the abstract must be written in such a way that the desired information is fully included.
The following outline is provided:
a) objective b) method c) result d) conclusion
- Due to the limited number of contributions, the program committee asks for your understanding that a speaker may be listed as author a maximum of three times.
- Please notify us if the author of the abstract and the presenting speaker are not the same person (applies only to free papers).
- Free paper and ePoster are the intended forms of presentation. However, the review or poster committee must reserve the right to assign accepted abstracts to Free Paper sessions and ePosters according to the requirements and topics.
- Only previously unpublished results should be submitted.
- Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submission no later than mid-May 2023.
- The responsibility for clearing any third party copyrights regarding the abstract content lies with the authors. Thus, the authors guarantee that there are no third party rights on all images, charts, etc. that would prevent publication. We ask for your understanding that the abstract will be published as submitted and no corrections can be made. If necessary, the organizer reserves the right to change incorrect abstracts without consultation.
- Furthermore, the abstract submitter has the consent of all named persons to submit or publish personal data (name, clinic, address, e-mail address).
The respective committee points out that abstracts that do not meet these requirements in terms of content must unfortunately be rejected.
The submitter allows the organizer to use his contribution (of any kind) free of charge. Notwithstanding this, he/she retains the possibility of further use according to his/her own needs!
Disclosure of financial interests of the authors - Free Paper and ePoster.
DOC expects the declaration of economic and financial interests from each author/speaker.
We believe that disclosure of financial interests is necessary. An economic connection as such does not yet constitute bias on the part of the author. The auditorium must decide for itself whether there are indications of an influence on a scientific paper due to an existing conflict of interest.
For this purpose, you will be asked by MCN GmbH in due course to disclose any financial/economic links in advance or when handing over your presentation in the media check. This will be done using the parameters outlined below:
| Consultant (B): | Commercial remuneration or support of the author in the last three years in the form of consulting contracts (membership in committees, advisory boards, supervisory boards, etc.)*. |
| Owner (E): | Ownership interest in drug/medical product (e.g. patent, copyright, sales license, etc.) |
| Investor (I): | financial interest in companies supplying described equipment, process, or products (e.g., stock ownership, shareholder, etc.)*. |
| None (K): | no conflicts of interest; no commercial support of the submitted work in any form |
| employee (M): | Financial interest in product commercialization (employee of product manufacturer)*. |
| Product (P): | financial interest in equipment, process, and/or product described (e.g., research support, speaker honoraria, travel support, grants, etc.)*. |
* Mention of the company by name required!
At the beginning of each presentation/ePoster, the title of the presentation/ePoster and name of the presenter as well as their assignment - as above - will be briefly projected on the screen.
Publication of abstracts
By submitting the abstract, the author agrees that the abstract will be published according to the principles of open access and that the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International CCBY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) will be used. The publication will be made via the publication portal German Medical Science (http://www.egms.de/). With the submission of the abstract, the submitter transfers all rights of further use of any kind to the organizer free of charge. Notwithstanding this, he/she retains the option of further exploitation according to his/her own needs.
If the contribution has already been published elsewhere in whole or in part, the original source must be cited. If the author publishes a contribution in parallel elsewhere, this should be done after and with reference to the publication at GMS.
The authors are responsible for clearing any third-party copyrights regarding the contents of the abstract. Thus, the authors guarantee that there are no third party rights on their abstract as well as on the supplied text, image and other media templates, etc., which would prevent publication. If material (e.g., images or charts) from other sources is used, the authors must provide a written statement from the copyright holder that he or she agrees to publication under a license.
In addition, the abstract submitter has the consent of all named individuals to submit or publish personal data (name, clinic, address, e-mail address).
Furthermore, the abstracts will be published in the DOC archive on the event homepage!
German Medical Science
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The advantages of publishing via GMS:
Each individual article is prepared for online publication according to high editorial standards and receives the persistent identifiers DOI and URN, making it citable. By publishing with GMS, the articles are permanently freely available according to the Open Access principle, can be found via all major search engines, and are archived for the long term.