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Attendees will help decide award winners on Friday
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This year the EFORT board has organized a special award session highlighting the free papers that have received the highest ratings by the reviewers, and the audience will participate in the selection process.
“For many years, EFORT has awarded the best papers at their meetings because EFORT has the ambition to present the most recent and most valuable scientific developments in well-presented papers. This year we had many papers submitted and, happily, EFORT is supported by a large group of excellent European orthopaedic and trauma surgeons who have carefully evaluated all of them,” Jan Verhaar, MD, PhD, EFORT president said.
The EFORT board agreed that a good paper at a medical congress should not only have excellent scientific content, but also it should be presented so attendees are given the essential information in the time allotted. Traditionally, EFORT awarded only the quality of the science, but going forward, it will include the quality of the presentation as well.
“The quality of the presentation can be best evaluated by the audience, and for that reason, we will ask the audience to vote this year. At the end of the session, using the congress mobile app and the voting feature, delegates can choose out of the six papers presented, the one which they consider has the most outstanding content and has been put forward in the best way. The three free papers getting the most votes will receive the gold, silver and bronze awards,” Verhaar said.
This free paper award competition will be divided into two sessions, one for trauma and one for orthopaedics. The papers will cover different subspecialties in trauma and orthopaedics. These two sessions will take place on Friday, 2 June, in the Helsinki Room, the trauma one taking place from 10:15 to 11:15 followed by the orthopaedic one from 11:30 to 12:30.
“I hope all attendees appreciate this new award format and many will participate. Everyone coming to the sessions will be a judge which is exciting. The success of this new session format depends on our attendees. I hope together we can make it a tradition.”
Disclosure: Verhaar reports no relevant financial disclosures.