GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
- The oral presentation will take place on Sunday, 10 September 2023 at 11:00 AM SGT at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Singapore.
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The authors of the shortlisted abstracts will receive an email notification; once notified, the authors are kindly requested to confirm their participation within 1 week from notification. Your confirmation within the stipulated timeline is highly crucial to avoid disqualification, forfeiture, or withdrawal of any award. -
All presenters need to register in advance for a 2-day onsite pass to the Congress; the award presentation for winners of best abstracts will take place on 10 September 2023 in the Grand Ballroom. -
Oral presenters may prepare an e-poster using PowerPoint in landscape layout (16x9) and save it as a PDF file. This will be posted on the 32nd Singapore Pharmacy Congress website.
- Oral session presenters should report at 10.30 AM in the conference venue, further details will be provided by email.
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All oral presentations must be in English. Please use the provided template slides for preparing your presentation. Slides are to be sent to secretariat.spc@mims.com by 6 September 2023.
- The oral presentation should include the following sections:
- Aim (background & objectives)
- Methods
- Results (tables and figures should be concise and appropriately labelled)
- Summary of key findings in the conclusion
- Impact and innovation
- Acknowledgement and declaration of sponsorship, if relevant
- References are optional: restrict to only key references
- Timing for each oral presentation (15 mins)
- Presentation (10 mins)
- Question and answers (5 mins)
- If you exceed the permitted timing, the session chairperson will be obliged to terminate the presentation.
- All oral presentations will undergo scoring by an expert panel to compete for the Congress awards.
- Decision by the panel of judges on the awards will be considered final.
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The session chairperson will be responsible for the scheduling of the presentations, which may be subject to change owing to circumstantial reasons, such as unexpected withdrawal of presenters. Awardees will be notified of the prizes by email/SMS, so that they can collect the prizes at the award ceremony.
