11th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MARITIME HEALTH
ODESSA, UKRAINE, 6 - 10 SEPTEMBER, 2011
DEAR SIRS,
The 11th international symposium in maritime health (ISMH11) is to be held in Odessa, Ukraine from the 6th to the 10th September, 2011. The scientific committee is pleased to send out the first call for papers, presentations, abstracts, posters, etc.
The topic for this symposium is “Maritime Health- an International Challenge” . Please, read the below instructions for authors and comply. If there are any queries from your side, you can reach out to us at nymba@mail.ru with a copy to medtrans2@rambler.ru
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Abstracts will be accepted until 31st December 2010. Please follow these instructions carefully. Abstracts that do not conform to the required format will be returned for the reformatting. All subjects should be linked as far as possible, to the headline fort he symposium, i.e. “Maritime Health- an International Challenge” All accepted abstracts will be printed in a brochure and distributed during the symposium. All presented Full papers will be produced in the CD format and distributed to all attendees within six moths of the symposium.
PAGE SIZE: The dimensions of the abstract must fit within the template, should not exceed 17 cm wide x 12 cm deep, including the title, authors, and institutional addresses. The font to the used throughout is 11 point Times new Roman. The language the abstracts should be English.
Inside the template box, please, type the following.
TITLE: the title should be typed in bold, upper case. Do not include a blank line after the title.
AUTHORS’ NAME (S): The authors’ names should be typed in lower case. The format for the authors’ name(s) is initials (no full stops) (space) surname (comma). The presenting authors’ name should be underlined. Do not include honorable titles, position, etc. into this line.
INSTITUTIONS: The Institutions should be typed in lower case not justified. If there is more than one institution, use superscript numbers to link authors to their institution. Each institution is described by the name of the institution, the city, state and country. Do not include the street address or postcode. Semicolons should separate institutions. Each institution on a new line.
ABSTRACTS TEXT.
The abstract text should not exceed 300 words. Use the headings INTRODUCTION, METHODS, RESULTS and CONCLUSIONS: typed in bold (including the colon). If the text will not fit within the specified size, edit to fit; do not use a font less than 11 point. COMMUNICATIONS FROM ORIGINAL RESEARCHES ARE WELCOMED! Abstracts for presentations without any specified methods and results included, can omit these two headings, but INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSIONS should always be included.
Please, type the following outside the templates box for all contributions: =PRESS TO FORM=
TYPE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BELOW THE ABSTRACT:
I. TOPIC. Please select and type ONE of the following topics that best represents the area of your abstract:
1. International cooperation and the practice of maritime medicine
2. International maritime legislation and health on board
3. Social and psychological problems of international crews
4. Maritime occupational health
3. Trauma on board ships
4. Quality of life on the sea
5. Standards of medical examinations and harmonisation of national and international legislative acts
6. Ship medicine chest
7. Rehabilitation of seafarers
8. HIV/AIDS, STD and infective diseases
9. Medical Training of ship offices and crew for rendering medical aid onboard a ship
10. Cruise medicine
11. Terrorism and piracy as health risks on board
12. Telemedicine
13. Health prevention and health promotion on board
14. Hyperbaric and naval medicine
15. History of maritime medicine
16. WHO International Health Regulations and medical aid in ports
17. Substance abuse in maritime industry
18. Search and rescue medicine
19. Toxicology in seafaring
20. Ecological and environmental problems on board
21. Off shore medicine
22. Medical problems of fishing fleet
II. ABSTARCT AREA: please, select and type ONE of the following
A. SEAFARING
B. CLINICAL PREVENTION
C. MARITIME HEALTH RISKS
D. INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
E. PORT WORKERS
F. FISHING
G. MARITIME MEDICINE HISTORY
III. KEYWORDS: please, give 3-5 keywords for the abstract(s) presented
IV. CONTACTS DETAILS FOR SUBMITTING AUTHOR: Please, type the name of the submitting author, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail address
V. PREFERED PRESENTATION MODE: In the space under the contact details, please, indicate the preferred mode of presentation using “ORAL”, “POSTER” or “Either ORAL or Poster”. Please, note that final assignment of oral or poster presentation will be at the discretion of the organizers.
VI. ABSTARCT SUBMISSION. Abstracts should be submitted as Microsoft Word for Windows documents with a “. doc” extension. If this is not possible, save as a Rich Text File (.rtf). The abstract should be saved with the file name “ISMH11-author surname”. If there is more than one abstract from the same author, please, number them consecutively: “ISMH11-author surname_1” , “ISMH11-author surname_2”, etc. Abstracts should be submitted as an attachment to ISMH11.abstr@gmail.com with cc to ismh11@mtwtu.org.ua The subject line of the e-mail must be “ISMHa11Abstarct-author surname” . Abstracts will not be accepted by fax or disk. The deadline for receipts of abstracts is 20st April 2011. The presenting author will be sent an e-mail advising the receipt of abstracts. If such an advice is not received within a week, please, do not hesitate to contact the scientific committee by nymba@mail.ru to clear up the point. Your abstract will be assigned with a number, which should be used for any correspondence relating to your abstract. This abstract number should also be assigned to the power point presentations; you either send one beforehand or handed to the congress team when you arrive.
VII. ACCEPTPANCE TIMETABLE: deadline for Abstracts is 20 April 2011. Participants will be notified whether their abstracts has been accepted by 28 February 2011. The presenting author must register for the symposium by 20 April 2011 for the accepted abstracts to be included in the final programme.
VIII. ABSTRACT PUBLICATION: the organising committee is planning to have the abstracts published in a book together with the programme to be delivered to the participants at the beginning of the symposium.
IX. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Presenter (s) must use PowerPoint (any version is satisfactory).
· naming your presentation – files must be named as “ISMH11-author’s surname”. If you have more than one presentation give them consecutive numbers;
· presenters can e-mail their presentations to ISMH11.abstr@gmail.com with copy to nymba@mail.ru E-mail your presentations –power point presentation and full text. Otherwise, please, bring your presentation on 3.5” diskette, memory stick or CD that has been formatted for PC readability;
· please bring a back-up copy with you to the conference;
· you will not be permitted to use your own computer. Computer files of all presentations will be copied onto a single computer before your session;
· keynote presentation will be of 30 min duration (including 10-15 minutes question time);
· oral session presentations will be 20 minutes (including 2-5 minutes question time);
· please, meet the chairperson of the session before the start.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS; Posters are not to be larger than 0.9x1.5 meters. They should be installed on display boards by the author(s) at your numbered position in the poster room on September 8. Posters should remain until September 9, 7 p.m. The author(s) will be required to stand next to the posters on the day allocated.
For any of your queries or assistance that you might require, please feel free to contact us:
92, Kanatnaya Str.,
Odessa, 65039, Ukraine
Fax (+38048) 728-14-52
Tel (+38067) 585-24-26
e-mail: nymba@mail.ru ; medtrans2@rambler.ru
© Ukrainian Research Institute for Medicine - 2011