Invitation for Abstract Submission
The Canadian Society of Physician Leaders invites you and your teams to submit an abstract for a 90-minute interactive workshop at the 2025 Canadian Conference of Physician Leadership taking place May 23-24, 2025 in Vancouver.
Submitting teams are encouraged to address how their proposal integrates equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility (EDIA), along with Indigenous reconciliation. As healthcare leaders, it is essential that we continually take intentional and meaningful steps to advance these critical areas in all aspects of our work.
We invite you to submit abstracts that align with one of the following:
- Theme: Leading with Purpose to Build a Brighter Healthcare Future – fostering leadership that is driven by a strong sense of purpose and aligned with core values to create a resilient, optimistic healthcare system that benefits organizations, employees, patients and society.
- Leadership development – promotes and inspires awareness, growth, belonging, and empowerment.
Submission Expectations
Presenters
Please include the following necessary information in your submission:
- Name and e-mail address of person submitting the abstract. This person will be the contact for the submission and receive all applicable information regarding acceptance and presentation details
- Name and e-mail address for each presenter
- Degrees, title, affiliation, city for each presenter
- Brief biography for each presenter (up to 75 words)
Word Count and Format
Please review the following expectations for successful acceptance of abstract submissions:
- Word count: up to 500 words, excluding the category and title.
- Format: please prepare your abstract in paragraph format utilizing the headings outlined below:
- Category: theme or leadership development.
- Workshop title
- Workshop description
- Learning objectives (a minimum of three) and how they align with the conference theme and/or leadership development. Learning objectives should avoid passive verbs like ‘understand, be aware of, have knowledge of or learn’ and use verbs found in Bloomberg’s taxonomy – Specific and Observable Verbs to Express Learning Objectives
- Significance or importance of the information being presented, highlighting fundamental leadership development, novel and/or innovative aspects, EDIA or reconciliation
- Presentation level (introductory, intermediate, advanced) to reflect the level of previous knowledge or leadership experience the participant is expected to have to participate in the workshop
- Participant engagement tools such as activities, reflection, Q&A, polls/surveys, etc. to improve the quality of the learning experience
- If available, submit a short 2-3 minute video showcasing your facilitation or presentation skills.
Submission Evaluation and Selection Process
Abstracts will be blind reviewed by the conference Planning Committee and decisions to accept or release will be based on the following:
- Alignment with the conference theme and/or enhancing leadership development
- Clearly articulated, concise and focused description, learning objectives and presentation format
- Originality and innovation
- Presents ideas, information and initiatives that are relevant and applicable to participants
- Advances equity, diversity, inclusivity, accessibility and/or Indigenous reconciliation
- Ability to generate dialogue, learning and growth for participants
- Participation of a learner, either in a mentored capacity or as one of the presenter(s)
- Incorporate feedback from previous CCPL presentations, if applicable
- Facilitation or presentation experience, if applicable
To view the Assessment Rubric, please click here.
Acceptance Terms and Conditions
- For each abstract selected, CCPL2025 is pleased to offer complimentary conference registration for up to two speakers per workshop, who are welcome to attend the full conference.
- In order to promote diversity and exposure to facilitators, we urge each individual to submit up to a maximum of two workshop abstracts.
- Presenters at the conference are encouraged to turn their workshop into an article for publication in the Canadian Journal on Physician Leadership. For more information on submitting to the Journal, please visit CJPL Authors.
Important Dates
Abstract submission opens: September 30, 2024
Abstract submission closes: November 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance for presentation: December 6, 2024
Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership May 23-24, 2025
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT TO COLLEEN GALASSO at [email protected].
Thank you for your interest in being a part of the CCPL2025 program. We look forward to reviewing your abstract and hope to see you in Vancouver in May!