Jan 30, 2020  |  6:00pm - 9:00pm

PGME 2020 Global Health Resident Research Showcase

Residents and fellows from all programs and specialties are invited to submit an abstract and/or attend the 2020 3rd Annual PGME Global Health Resident Research Showcase- an opportunity for residents and fellows to share their global health research. 

Mandatory registration for presenters and attendees from this link. Information from j.kopelow@utoronto.ca

Abstract Dates and Details

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2020
  • Notification of Abstract Acceptance: January 20, 2020
  • PGME Global Health Research Showcase: January 30, 2020

All abstracts will be reviewed by a PGME GH Research Committee comprised of your peers — each are residents and fellows from across all postgraduate training programs with faculty oversight.

This Committee of your peers will evaluate your abstracts for appropriateness and completeness of the information, scientific merit, impact, and relevance to the goals and objectives of GH at PGME. All submissions will be acknowledged.

on behalf of Planning Committee
Dr. Haniya Khan, PGY1 Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy, Clinical Fellow Radiation Oncology,
Dr. Martha Smith, PGY1 Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Dr. Mariella Vargas-Gutierrez, Fellow Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Maryse Bouchard, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sickkids;
Assistant Professor Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Abstract Submission Guidelines
Residents and fellows from all specialties are invited to submit abstracts on global health themes. The PGME GH Research Showcase is offered as an opportunity for trainees to share their global health research during their postgraduate medical training.
Abstract submission details and instructions from this link.

Abstracts should include the following: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
Posters and oral presentations are encouraged.
A number of abstracts will be selected for ‘quick’ Roundtable presentation when authors will be given 5-10 minutes to present at the Showcase on January 30.

Abstracts submitted including the following themes are encouraged:
Advocacy and Activism
Cross Cultural Communication
Environment and Health
Global Child Health
Global Health Education
Global Health Ethics
Global Health Governance
Global Health Surgery and Anaesthesia
Global Mental Health
Global Migration and Health
Health and Human Rights
Health Economics
Humanitarian Emergencies
Indigenous Health
Infectious Diseases
Innovation and Technology in Global Health
Local Health Inequalities
Non-Communicable Diseases
Nutrition and Food Security
Primary Care and Global Primary Care
Public Health and Global Public Health
Refugee Health
Women’s Health