BREAKOUT PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS & INSTRUCTIONS

Breakout Presentations are 5-minute recorded presentations.  Each presenter will be assigned a day and time to be present in person, at the meeting, while their video plays for session attendees.  Following the video presentation, you will need to be in your assigned room to for questions and discussion. The Louise W. House Award will be given at the meeting to the best Breakout presentation.

Please record your presentation in an MP4 format – any presentation submitted in a format other than MP4 will be rejected.  A simple way to record yourself in an MP4 format giving your presentation is using the Zoom meeting platform (www.zoom.com). Start a meeting with yourself in Zoom, share your screen (presentation). Click on the record button. For a walkthrough of how to record via Zoom, please click:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/lZHSAMd89JE?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1. For more help using the zoom platform, see the tutorials online here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom-Video-Tutorials. 

Once you have your presentation in a final format, please upload it on, or before November 21st, to our Meeting Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/request/kn5pS9XhE0sQfani6Km0.  Save the presentation with a file name starting with your last name. If you have any issues uploading your presentation, please contact Audrey McDonough Cameron  [email protected].

It is your responsibility to have your co-authors go online to https://www.xcdsystem.com/datatrace/abstract/index.cfm?ID=Wt6jQ5L and complete the Mandatory Financial Disclosure Forms. If your coauthors have not signed into the site yet their username and password will be the email address you entered for them when you submitted the abstract. They do not need to create a new contact.  All disclosure forms need to be completed on, or before November 21st.  If for any reason you must withdraw your presentation or someone else will be presenting it in the video and representing it at the meeting, please notify Heather Skinner at [email protected] as soon as possible.

The SOMOS Program Committee and Board are delighted to have your presentation included at the meeting.  As you prepare your presentation, please observe the following guidelines. Focus on the essence of your research and eliminate unnecessary background information and lengthy discussion. Your presentation should be an abstract in PowerPoint form.  

Please include the following:

1. Title & Disclosure Slide. As a CME provider SOMOS is required by the ACCME to obtain and share with meeting participants any potential conflicts of presenters and coauthors. This information must be included on the 1st or 2nd slide of your presentation, following the title. Please use one of the following statements to provide this information:

  • ‘I (or my coauthors) have nothing to disclose’; or
  • ‘I (and/or my coauthors) have something to disclose’ along with a referral for more detailed disclosure information on the SOMOS App or via the Disclosure Program on the AAOS website.

2.  Immediately proceed to the Purpose/Hypothesis.  

3.  Materials and Methods.  Present the information that tells the audience that your research is sound, that your methods are valid, and that you employed appropriate statistics when applicable.  

4.  Results:  Focus on the results that pertain to your purpose and hypothesis.  Let us know the statistical significance of your most important findings. Give us the "meat" of your findings.

5.  Conclusion:  Tell us the significance of your research and its clinical significance to summarize what your research taught us.  Simply state why your research is important.  If there is previous literature that is supported by yours or that yours disproves, then please let us know that as well.  Give only one or two conclusion slides to summarize what your research taught us.

Irrespective of how complex your research, you can do this in the allotted time.  At most, the audience will take away 2 or 3 points from your presentation.  

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Heather Skinner at [email protected].