Call for Submissions

The symposium conveners invites submissions from those interested in presenting their ideas at the symposium.

The ACEM Research symposium aims to foster multicentre clinical research in emergency medicine across Australia and New Zealand, and beyond. This includes clinical trials, observational and epidemiological studies. We invite submissions on topics across the range of emergency medicine practice. The project proposals should be focused on emergency department patients as research participants and involve emergency medicine clinicians or researchers as leaders within the project team. The scope and design of the project will involve multiple collaborating emergency departments.

The symposium is now open for submissions for presentations in two categories. A short presentation of the project will be followed by a floor-discussion with the objective of providing investigators constructive feedback to maximise the likelihood of success in successfully delivering the study.

Shark Tank

These are ideas for multicentre research projects in early stage, typically in protocol development.  There should be a strong rationale and some idea of design. Alternatively, the idea may be to expand a single centre study or pilot study to other sites. Presentations will be limited to 5 minutes with up to 10 minutes for discussion and feedback.

This year the top project(s) will be workshopped on day two, receiving invaluable input from experienced emergency medicine researchers.

Deep Blue

These are projects at a more advanced stage of development. There will be an established research team, well-developed protocol, projected sample size and number of sites and a clear timeline for obtaining funding and approvals if these are not yet in place. Recruitment may or may not have commenced. Presentations will be 10 minutes with up to 5 minutes for discussion and feedback.