In order to increase the visibility of the excellent work being done by medical students, residents, and addiction medicine/addiction psychiatry fellows in New York State in the area of substance use disorders, the New York Society of Addiction Medicine is hosting a competition for medical students, residents, and addiction medicine/addiction psychiatry fellows currently training in NYS.
Following are details about this poster competition:
Eligibility
All medical students, residents, and addiction medicine/addiction psychiatry fellows in a clinical training program in New York State are eligible. Entrants can participate as individuals or as part of a team*.
Submissions from primary care residency programs, such as family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, emergency medicine, and psychiatry, are especially encouraged. However, residents from all specialties also are invited and encouraged to submit entries for this competition.
(*only one award per team will be given)
Subject
Submissions must address: How substances use disorders impact the applicant’s specialty practice, patients, and/or clinical training program.
Submissions should be in the form of presentation materials (a PowerPoint presentation) addressing such topics as: ways in which substance use disorders affect patients and/or their families; what strategies or innovations a medical school, residency program, or fellowship program is implementing to address the needs of persons with substance use disorder diagnoses; best practices within the specialty that target prevention of substance use disorders; other specific approaches to the care and treatment of persons with substance use disorder; research in the area of substance use disorder; or other related topics. The presentation materials submitted should include both the factual presentation on addiction, as well as material about how the medical student/s, resident/s, or fellow/s are involved or have contributed to the topics covered.
Format
Those wishing to enter the competition are asked to submit a PowerPoint presentation of up to twelve slides. Winning participants (one medical student/medical student team, one resident/resident team, and one fellow/fellow team, pending presentations submitted) will be asked to give a 7-8-minute oral presentation at the 2023 Virtual NYSAM Annual Conference on Saturday, March 18, 2023, using the submitted PowerPoint presentation. At the end of each presentation at the NYSAM Annual Conference, there will be a brief Q&A with conference attendees.
Awards
Three winning presentations will be selected based on the initial submission.
Deadline
All presentation materials must be submitted via e-mail to Kelly S. Ramsey by close of business on Friday, January 13, 2023.
Winners will be notified, via email, by Monday, January 23, 2023.
For questions regarding this contest or submission guidelines please contact:
Kelly S. Ramsey
