Virtual poster display and competitition

Over the years, the poster display and competition has formed an integral part of networking and best practice sharing and learning at SPPC Annual Conferences. So, this year, complementary to the virtual events, we running a virtual poster display and competition.

Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would like to promote and showcase? Why not present your work during the Autumn Season at our virtual poster exhibition? This is a great opportunity to share your learning and tell others about your work. The call for posters is now open.

If you are at all interested in presenting a poster, please contact Pauline Ellison for a proposal form for completion at: pauline@palliativecarescotland.org.uk

Poster abstracts/ proposals will be reviewed rapidly as soon as we receive them and acceptances confirmed continuously up until the closing deadline, 11 September 2020.

Exhibitors will be asked to create their virtual poster using a twitter-friendly template and submit this to the Partnership no later than 25 September 2020. The template and guidelines for preparing your virtual poster will be attached to your poster abstract/ proposal acceptance email.

On 12 October 2020, the poster section of the SPPC website will go live for colleagues to view all the posters and to cast their vote for the Derek Doyle Poster Prize. The Partnership will also curate a day of poster sharing via Twitter.

On 29 October 2020 from 3.00pm – 5.00pm a selection of exhibitors will be invited to give brief presentations of their work and to take part in a Q&A via Zoom as part of the SPPC Autumn Season of events. The winners of the Derek Doyle Poster Prize will also be announced at this event.

Derek Doyle Poster Prize

All posters will be entered in the poster competition. In 2019 the Partnership was delighted to rename the conference poster competition ‘The Derek Doyle Poster Prize’. Derek Doyle is the Honorary President of the SPPC. As many people will know Derek was a key figure in Scotland, the UK and globally in the development of palliative care – instrumental in establishing palliative medicine as a speciality, first chair of the Association for Palliative Medicine, first Vice-Chairman of the European Association for Palliative Care and a founding member of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.