BACKGROUND
The Asia - Pacific Conference on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (APCEDM) is a friendship and meeting place for Asia and Pacific Rims Countries. The member Countries of the APCEDM are also included the Countries from Eastern and South-Eastern part of Asia, Oceania, and also some of the Countries from Northern and Southern part of the Americas.
This International scientific forum shall be held every two years, and has been placed since 1988. On the 10th Asia - Pacific Conference on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (APCEDM X) that was held in Sapporo – Japan, on the last 27 – 28 August 2010, the APCEDM Board of Directors who represents all member Countries has elected Abdul Radjak, MD, FICOG., as the President of the 11th APCEDM, and it automatically had chosen Indonesia to host the 11th APCEDM. It will be the second experience for Indonesia, after organizing the 3rd APCEDM in 1996.
TOPIK WORKSHOP
- Community-Based Emergency & Disaster Response
- National Platform
- Disaster Nursing
- Civilian and Military Coordination in Disaster Response
- Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
- Local Wisdom on Disaster Mitigation
- Field (Fixed & Mobile) Hospital
- Terrorism
- Complex Emergency
- Prehospital Management
- Hospital Preparedness / Hospital Disaster Plan, Safe Hospital
- The Management of Information on Disaster
- Safe Community
- Rehabilitation Programs
- Pandemic Preparedness and Response
- Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Mobilization
- CSR Program to Support Disaster Management
- Financial Aspects
- Global Health Cluster
- Round Table Discussion (Education, EBM, Evaluation)
- Psychosocial Aspect
CALL FOR ABSTRACT
Participants are invited to submit an abstract for the congress. Only electronic submissions are accepted. Oral and poster Presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts based on scientific merit by the Scientific Committee. Abstracts must adequately describe the objectives and results so that the quality and originality of the abstract can be evaluated by the scientific committee. All abstract should be accomplished following the layout guidelines.
Abstract layout guidelines:
- Abstract title (Arial, 12pt, bolt)
- Names of main authors and coauthor (presenting author underline) (Arial, 11pt)
- Affiliation of all authors (Arial, 11pt, Italic)
- Body text including objective, methodology, results and conclusion (Max. 350 words)(Arial, 11pt)
GUIDELINES FOR FREE PAPER PRESENTATION
Oral Presentation:
- Authors will be informed thru e-mail of the date, time and venue of the oral presentation.
- Each presenting author will be given 10 minutes to present in a clear and concise manner.
- Use font size not smaller than 18, the larger the better, text and visual can use 18 to 24 point, and titles should be 32 point.
- There should be no more than five bullet points per slide and no more than 17 words per bullet point.
- 5.There should be no more than three colors used, and action or sound should never be flashy or obtrusive.
Poster Presentation:
- The maximum available area for displaying your poster is 100 x 120 cm
- We suggest that you design your poster layout with the following sections: a) Title, authors, address (at upper edge, across the width of the whole oster); b) Objectives; c) Methods; d) Results; e) Conclusions
- The title should be emphasized by the use of bold-face or similar lettering. The text should be printed in the same of lettering, large enough to be read comfortably from a distance of 2-3 meters
- Author will be informed thru e-mail of the date, time and venue of the poster presentation. Coordinators will circulate to discuss with the authors and to lead discussions with other authors in the session and delegates in attendance.