All authors (podium and poster) are required to register and pay the registration fee if attending the meeting
- Annual Meeting, Basic Science Focus Forum, and International Trauma Care Forum Presentation time limit is 6 minutes
- Manuscripts for paper presentations are due Monday, August 24, 2020. This allows moderators to review your paper prior to the meeting. All authors who do not submit a manuscript will be banned from presenting papers or posters at the OTA for two years. Manuscripts should resemble a journal manuscript with developed and detailed Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections.
- Upload manuscripts through the Speaker Management Site. A link to the Speaker Management Site was emailed to the presenting author. Contact the OTA at ota@ota.org if you need your access link to the Speaker Management Site.
- Financial Disclosure: ACCME guidelines mandate that all institutional and personal financial support be disclosed from the podium. Presenters must use the OTA Disclosure Template for their disclosure slide. The disclosure slide should be displayed for a minimum of 3 seconds and immediately follow the title slide. If the session moderator feels it is needed, they may use the discussion time to ask for further clarification regarding potential conflicts.
- FDA: Due to increased attention by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the regulatory status of certain devices used in orthopaedic surgery, the OTA leadership requests that each presenter announce to the audience the FDA classification of each device mentioned. State from the podium and indicate on slide following financial disclosure whether the device has FDA approval.
Slide 1: Study title with authors
Slide 2: Financial disclosures
Slide 3: FDA status
- Third Party Content Inclusion: Presentations containing materials from published journal articles or book chapters require permission documentation. This includes figures, tables and excerpts for outside sources. Any slides containing third party material must include the complete source citation including figure or table number under the content. Authors should consider substituting third party content with personal or original artwork whenever possible.
- State conclusions and major points at the beginning of the presentation or at least early enough so they will be covered if time runs out.
- Present description of study and supporting data succinctly. In 6 minutes there is not sufficient time to wander to minor points or to present data in complete detail.
- Round off percentages and numbers.
- Keep the message short on your PowerPoint presentation slides and cover only one major point.
- Avoid complex graphics; the listener has only a few seconds to digest the message on each slide at the same time he/she is listening to you.
- If you plan to use a video, embed the video in your presentation.
- The projection screens this year will be in 16:9 format.
- Presenters will be able to upload their PowerPoints ahead of time. Details for uploading remotely will be emailed in late August.
QUESTIONS? Please call the OTA staff office M-F 8:00 am-5:00 pm Central at 847-698-1631or email: ota@ota.org