Med. Professionals

Continence Conference 2008
Investigating Incontinence - Humanity and Technology

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The organising committee of NZ Continence Association 2008 Conference warmly invites all continence practitioners (i.e. medical/surgical, nursing, physiotherapy) to present their original work at the Biennial Continence Conference to be held in Hamilton 12-24 September 2008.

The theme of the conference is "Investigating Incontinence - Humanity and Technology". With the continuing demand for continence services we take the opportunity to discuss new efficiencies and improvement in continence care delivery. There have been many innovations in this specialised field. The conference is an opportunity for you to share your research and practice with other continence practitioners from around New Zealand.

We would like to encourage you to take the opportunity this forum offers to show case your practice. You do not have to do it alone - find a friend and present together. And remember you are among friends - old and new - and that we are all there to learn.

We look forward to welcoming you to 'Continence Conference' - Hamilton 2008.

Kind Regards
Conference Organising Committee

Closing Date for Abstracts: 31 May 2008

The decision to accept an abstract is at the discretion of the Programme Committee. A condition of acceptance of the abstract is that at least one author or nominated presenter registers for the conference. If your abstract is accepted, you will be notified by email by the end of July 2008.

Oral presentations will be of 10 minutes duration plus 5 minutes question time. Computer projection facilities will be available at all sessions and there will not be slide projection or overhead projection facilities.

ABSTRACT CONTENT

The abstract should contain:

. Title (in capitals and bold)
. Authors (last name followed by initials. Underline the presenting author). There can be more than one author but presenting order must be in bold
. Institution and address
. E-mail address (of contact author) Discipline
. The body of the abstract could then contain:
- Background
- Aims or Objectives
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusions/discussion
For example:
ABSTRACT TITLE
Smith JK, Jones R
Address
City
j.smith@c-mail.gov.nz  (Discipline: Other)

ABSTRACT FORMAT

. Corrections to your abstract will NOT be accepted after Monday, 31 May 2008. Please ensure you check your abstract carefully before submission.
. Abstracts should be in 11 point, Arial font and fit on a single A4 page with margins of 2 cm on all edges and be approximately 250 words.
. Abstracts should be single-spaced and fully justified. Do not indent paragraphs.
. Use the "normal text" character set for any special characters (not "Symbols", "Greek", "Math", "Multinational" character sets - since these may not be reproduced as expected from the e-mail copy received). If in doubt, spell it out!
. Abstracts will be reproduced in the Conference Proceedings exactly as submitted, so please check your abstract carefully BEFORE submission.

Conference Registration brochure available Mid July 2008

For any enquiries please email jan@continence.org.nz