Registrar Clinico-Pathological Correlation Case Presentation Session Entries
A cherished tradition of the conference is a session of Clinico-Pathological Case presentations by registrars. This is a popular session and provides a forum for registrars to present in front of the UK HIV medicine community. BHIVA also awards a prize for the winning presentation. The session will be co-chaired and judged by Professor Mark Bower, consultant HIV physician at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Ula Mahadeva, consultant histopathologist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Three cases will be selected for presentation at the conference. Please read these guidelines before submitting an entry:
1) Format
a) All entries should be in Microsoft Office PowerPoint format, with slides in a 16:9 ratio.
b) The presentation should take no more than 10 minutes to deliver orally, allowing 5 minutes for questions and interchange.
c) The presentations should be interactive, and an audience voting facility will be provided via the Conference App. You should include a minimum of 3 question slides within your presentation, on which the audience can vote on suggested answers. The maximum number of potential answers allowed per question is 5.
d) You should include a slide with learning points.
2) Timelines
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Entries must be submitted online via the conference website by 31st January 2020.
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The entries selected for presentation will be chosen by the co-chairs and both successful and unsuccessful entrants notified by 28th February 2020.
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The co-chairs will provide suggestions for improvement of the selected presentations by 28th February 2020.
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The finalised presentations should be emailed to [email protected] by 27th March 2020.
3) Criteria for selection of entries
The entries will be anonymised through the online submission process before being viewed by the co-chairs.
a) The aim of these presentations is to discuss the role of histo/cytopathology in the management of HIV disease and learning about HIV disease. The presentation should be based on a patient’s case (or a couple of patients’ cases) of which the entrant has good knowledge. There must be some histopathology and/ or cytopathology sample(s) from the patient. Cases with autopsies, particularly if autopsy histology is available, are likely to be looked upon favourably.
b) Images must be included of the patient’s relevant imaging investigations and histology/ cytology/ autopsy pathology. If these are not yet available at the time of initial submission of the entry, a slide entitled with the image can be left blank, to indicate that the image is being obtained.
c) For each session the entries selected will aim to reflect a range of pathologies, in order to make for a varied discussion, e.g. if there are two TB cases only one is likely to be selected.
4) From selection to presentation
The co-chairs will provide feedback to the selected entrants, so that their presentations can be optimised prior to presentation at this national forum.
5) If your entry is not selected
The standard of entries is generally high and do not be disappointed if yours is not selected: it may just be a reflection of the region/case mix of the other entries received at that round, and not an indication that your entry was lacking worth. So please do consider re-submitting the same or another entry for the next round. There are usually fewer entries for the autumn conference than the spring conference.