The Scientific Committee encourages all participants to send scientific papers to XXX FIMS Sports Medicine World Congress of International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS). The Congress Topics are listed here: Sports Medicine. Training and performance improvement. Biomechanics. Sports cardiology. Exercise physiology. Nutrition and sports supplementation. Kinanthropometry. Genetics and molecular biology. Diagnostics, management and treatment of sports injuries. Sports injuries prevention. Management and treatment of illness through physical exercise. Health improvement and aging delay through physical activity. Athlete’s care. Doping. Imaging Diagnostics in Sports Medicine. Oral communications will be distributed in panels of the Congress Topics. Please select one topic of the list as an offer for doing your presentation. The Scientific Committee may reassign the abstract in other Congress topic.  The works shall be original and not been presented in previous congresses or similar meetings. The scientific communications admitted, oral communications and posters, will be published in the Archivos de Medicina del Deporte review.

Sending and presentation language The scientific communications, oral communications (PowerPoint presentation text) and posters presentation will be done in English. The oral communications reading may be done in English and Spanish in separate communications sessions.

Abstract submission rules Please pay attention to the following rules for your scientific communication (oral communication or poster) abstract preparation, because they are mandatory: The final deadline for scientific works sending will be the 15th September 2008. The Scientific Communication will be sent to the Scientific Committee Chairman, with the form properly filled in, to the following e-mail address: fims2008@femede.es. The abstract shall have a clear relationship to the XXX FIMS Sports Medicine World Congress contents and definitively to Medicine and Sports Science. The Scientific Committee shall send the presented work to the mean of presentation (oral communication or poster) which will be considered most appropriate to the type and contents of it.   The Scientific Committee has the right to reject the works that don’t fulfill the previously indicated requirements by the quality and theme the scientific event requires.

Instructions for abstracts submission Only the papers submitted in electronic form will be accepted. This format may be found in htpp://www.femede.es. Títtle: The tittle must be brief (up to 15 words) and specific. It has to reflect the paper content and not to include abbreviations. It will be written in arial 12 points capital letters. Authors: The surname will be written in lower case letters followed by the initial of the name (without comma after the surname). The authors will be separated by comma. Worksplace: The workplace for every author must be indicated. If there are several centres, they will be identified with a number. Preference for presentation: The author will mark the kind of presentation preferred for the paper. Text: The maximal length for the text is 300 words or 3000 characters, and it will be written with an arial 10 points lower case letter. Non explained abbreviations will be avoided. The abstract will not repeat the title and it have to adjust to the following outline: introduction, methods, results and conclusions. Tables, figures and images may be included respecting the maximal length of the text. Three key words are required at least. The abstracts have to include specific information about the results and conclusions of the investigation. Abstracts with expressions such as “results will be discussed” will not be accepted.

Notification of papers receipt In a 15 days period you will receive a notification confirming the reception of your abstract. If not, you have to send your paper again with an electronic message to fims2008@femede.es. Scientific communication responsible person inscription Each person can present two scientific communications at the most (oral communication or poster). In case both are accepted, only one of them may be presented as an oral communication. Authors which are presenting a scientific communication (oral communication or poster) and have been accepted must have been registered and have paid the Congress inscription fees before the 18th October 2008. In other case their scientific communication (oral communication or poster) will be removed from the program and the abstracts book.

Oral communication presentation Oral communications will have 8 minutes of presentation. At the end of each session there will be a question turn.  All oral communications will be done in PowerPoint format, and shall be given to the organization Communications responsible the previous day to its presentation.   Number of slides of the PowerPoint presentation is limited to 12.

Poster presentation If your abstract is accepted but not as oral communication, we suggest you to present it as a poster. In due time, information for poster presentation will be available. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF POSTER

Certifications After the oral or poster presentation, we will deliver a certificate to the person in charge. Publication of scientific papers The scientific papers abstracts (oral communications and poster) accepted and presented in the XXX World Congress of Sports Medicine will be published in the journal Archives of Sports Medicine (Archivos de Medicina del Deporte), scientific publication of the speciality of Sports Medicine and official journal of Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine, which is published every two months and has been published during 25 years now.

In the “Download” link you will find all the documents, scientific communications presentation guidelines and the sending form, in both word and pdf formats.

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