KSS Resident Doctors Conference

The KSS Annual Conference for Resident Doctors is back

We are excited to invite you to the KSS Annual Conference for Resident Doctors 2025. This will be held on Tuesday 18th March at the Amex, Brighton from 9am to 5pm.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘individual development with collective responsibility’. Come and join us for a day of keynote speakers, interactive workshops and presentations. From leadership to patient safety, the day will cover a variety topics relevant to resident doctors in KSS.

The conference is free to attend, just sign up via our link here. We’ve taken into account all feedback from last year and have planned the day to ensure a good balance of information, ideas sharing and networking. There is also an opportunity to present in our poster competition. Entries are now open, and you can find out more below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Poster Competition

Entries for our poster competition are now open. This is a great opportunity to enter your work into a regional poster competition. This year we are inviting posters on any of the following themes:

• Doctor’s health and wellbeing
• Improving communication between doctors and patients
• Improving continuity of care
• Medico-legal issues
• Improving leadership & teamworking
• Research ethics
• Healthcare management
• Improving patient safety
• Health promotion and illness prevention
• Initiatives and innovations in health education

Posters will be judged by our panel over the lunchtime break, and prizes for the top three entries will be awarded at the close of the day.

Abstracts should adhere to the following:

• The maximum word limit for the abstract title is 20 words (excluding spaces)
• The maximum word limit for the abstract text is 300 words (excluding spaces)
• No images or tables are allowed in the abstract
• There can be only one presenting author and the first author must be the presenting author
• There is no limit to the number of co-authors

Delegates will have three minutes to present their poster and one minute to take any questions from the judges. The judges will then use the following criteria to mark each poster:

• Quality of poster (is it interesting, concise, attractively presented?)
• Aim of the project (is it novel, reproducible, applicable to wider healthcare environment?)
• Verbal presentation (is the explanation clear, is the presenter enthusiastic, are they able to answer the questions posed?)
• Overall impact

Please send poster abstracts to england.ksspgme.se@nhs.net. The closing date for submissions Friday 31st January 2025. Successful submissions will be notified by Friday 14^th Feb 2025. NB- all accepted posters will need to be printed and displayed on the day. Further guidance on this will be sent to successful applicants.