Welcome to all Presenters of the 2023 AAST Annual Meeting of Clinical Congress & Acute Care Surgery!
Notes for all Presenters
- Download AAST's AV guidelines here
- Feel free to use AAST's PowerPoint template and disclosure slide template for your presentation
- The slides to your presentation are to be uploaded to Speaker Ready Room (Green Room)
- Slides are to be uploaded in the Speaker Ready Room at least four (4) hours prior to your presentation
Speaker Ready Room Times (Green Room - Ballroom Level)
- Tuesday, September 19, 2023: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Wednesday, September 20, 2023: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday, September 21, 2023: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday, September 22, 2023: 6:00 AM – 6:30 PM
- Saturday: Closed
Oral Presenters
- Please remember to upload your manuscript to BOTH the Cadmium Website and to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS: https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/default.aspx) by Tuesday, August 1st
- To view the JTACS submission instructions, click here
- Please note: the above are two separate submissions and you must complete both. This date is non-negotiable and failure to upload by this date will make you and your institution ineligible to present for two years (2024 and 2025). A letter will also be sent to your chairman. Please make sure you mark them in your calendar
- If there is a speaker change, please let rsass@aast.org know ASAP
- You will take ten (10) minutes to complete your presentation. After your presentation is complete, the discussant will ask their questions, which will take a maximum of five (5) minutes. The remaining five (5) minutes you will respond and then take questions from the audience (if time allows)
- Please reference the four below documents for the visual abstracts (due to ksanders@aast.org by Monday, July 17th)
Quickshot Presenters
- Please remember to upload your manuscript to the Cadmium Website (link sent via email) by Monday, August 1st
- Please note this year it is mandatory for quickshots to submit your manuscript to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS, www.jtrauma.com) by Monday, August 1st
- To view the JTACS submission instructions, click here
- Please note: the above are two separate submissions and you must complete both. This date is non-negotiable and failure to upload by this date will make you and your institution ineligible to present for two years (2024 and 2025). A letter will also be sent to your chairman. Please make sure you mark them in your calendar
- You will have three (3) minutes to present a maximum of 5 slides (not including the title and disclosure slides). The discussant will ask two (2) very objective questions, which should take no more than two (2) minutes. You will have one (1) minute to answer your two questions. The moderator will stop you or the discussant if you go beyond the time allotted for your presentation
- The two questions from your moderator will be sent to you by Friday, September 15th
- If there is a speaker change, please let rsass@aast.org know ASAP
Poster Presenters
- All presenters are required to submit their poster to the online platform no later than 11:59 PM CST on Monday, September 11th. An email containing the login to submit your poster will be sent soon
- Although not mandatory, AAST suggests submitting your manuscript to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS, www.jtrauma.com) or to Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (TSACO, tsaco.bmj.com)
- The poster session will be held on Thursday, September 21st from 12:45-1:45 PM PST
- Format: you will present for four (4) minutes, then two (2) minutes will be allocated for questions from the poster professors/attendees
- Instructions for poster submission to come
- The poster schedule will be posted shortly
Notes
- A section at the top of the poster must contain the Title, Authors, and Affiliations – feel free to use the PDF as the template for your poster
- Files must be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file format
- PDFs should be formatted landscape, 8.5 x 11 inches (or similar)
- All posters will be shown on a ~75” TV screen. Please ensure that your poster is readable up to four feet from the screen
- If there is a speaker change, please let rsass@aast.org know ASAP