However, the spirit of this Annual Conference is that full disclosure (regarding conflicts of interest as well as details in methodology) will be expected and must be provided at the time of presentation. Given the brevity of abstracts, the Program and Section Chairpersons realize that the detail level obtained through this process cannot achieve the level of a full article in a peer-reviewed journal. The author will also be informed that if he/she declines the abstract category change, the abstract may not be accepted. ** Note: If upon review, an abstract is suggested for a category other than the original category to which the author submitted under, the author will be subsequently notified and allowed the first right of refusal for category change. The Section Chairperson(s) organizes accepted abstracts by common topics and creates a session schedule of selected abstracts for presentation at the Annual Conference. The Section Chairperson(s) performs a final review of all approved abstracts and determines whether to accept, reject (with clear reasoning provided), suggest for ePoster, or suggest for consideration in a different category.

Any suggestions are then forwarded to the Section Chairperson(s) for the next level of review.Ĥ. The Program Chairperson(s) may at his/her discretion, re-categorize the abstracts, suggest consideration for ePoster, or suggest rejection /editing. The Program Chairperson(s) perform(s) an initial review of all ASLMS Program abstract submissions that have been approved via the iThenticate process and CME Director review. Abstracts that meet acceptable iThenticate criteria are forwarded to the Program Chairpersons for the next review step.ģ.

The CME Director will review iThenticate results, and provide feedback on those abstracts scoring 40% or greater as per item '1.1.' above. The author will be sent a warning letter and will be requested to advise the appropriate parties as to how the material differs from previously published or presented matter.ġ.2 Submissions with iThenticate scores of 75% or greater will not be considered for presentation at the Annual Conference or publication, unless the author can demonstrate that the material submitted has not, in fact, been previously published, and has not been previously presented.Ģ. The software package is used to verify content has not been plagiarized (including self-plagiarism) and cross-references published matter against the submission.ġ.1 Submissions with iThenticate scores of 40% or greater will be subject to review by the CME Director and Annual Conference Program Chair for the Annual Conference. All abstracts submitted to the Annual Conference will be evaluated by iThenticate (or similar) software in an effort to verify the originality of the work. Guidelines for Review and Selection of Abstracts Abstract Review Processġ.

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