Rapid Fire Presentation Requirements & AV Instructions

Presentations are limited to 3 minutes and will be timed.  All PowerPoint presentations must be submitted prior to the Annual Meeting.  All abstract podium presentations will be considered for the top four awards and presenters must be in attendance during the award session at the end of the program to receive the awards.

Please have your coauthors go to https://www.xcdsystem.com/datatrace/abstract/index.cfm?ID=9XcEbZs and complete the Mandatory Financial Disclosure Forms.   All co-authors must complete a Financial Disclosure Form in order for you to present at the meeting. It is your responsibility to have your co-authors complete the form.  Disclosure information must be updated yearly.  Your presentation will be removed from the program if all of your co-authors do not complete the Disclosure Form by February 27th.

To keep the Scientific Program on schedule, personal laptops will not be used for presentations. All presentations will be pre-loaded onto a master PC prior to the meeting.  To accomplish this, it is required that you submit your audiovisual presentation(s) prior to the Annual Meeting. Please upload your presentation no later than March 6th, to our system at https://www.xcdsystem.com/datatrace/abstract/index.cfm?ID=9XcEbZs. The presentation should also be compatible with PowerPoint 2007.   This allows our audiovisual staff time to make sure your PowerPoint presentation is working properly, especially if the presentation contains video.

Awards will be given to the top four Resident abstract presentations. The live presentations will be reviewed at the meeting and awards will be presented at the end of the day.  Award winners must be present during the award presentations to receive the award.  The awards will include a plaque and check. 

The LOA Program Committee and Board are delighted to have your presentation on this year's program.  As you prepare your podium presentation, please observe the following guidelines for the meeting.  Focus on the essence of your research and eliminate unnecessary background information and lengthy discussion. Your presentation should be an abstract in PowerPoint form.  

Please include the following:

1. Title & Disclosure Slide.  Avoid thanking your co-authors.  As a CME provider LOA is required by the ACCME to obtain and share with meeting participants any potential conflicts of presenters and coauthors. This information must be included on the 1st or 2nd slide of your presentation, following the title. Please use one of the following statements to provide this information:

  • ‘I (or my coauthors) have nothing to disclose’; or
  • ‘I (and/or my coauthors) have something to disclose’ along with a referral for more detailed disclosure information on the LOA App or via the Disclosure Program on the AAOS website.

2.  Immediately proceed to the Purpose/Hypothesis.  

3.  Materials and Methods:  Present the information that tells the audience that your research is sound, that your methods are valid, and that you employed appropriate statistics when applicable.  

4.  Results:  Focus on the results that pertain to your purpose and hypothesis.  Let us know the statistical significance of your most important findings. Give us the "meat" of your findings.

5.  Conclusion:  Tell us the significance of your research and its clinical significance to summarize what your research taught us.  Simply state why your research is important.  If there is previous literature that is supported by yours or that yours disproves, then please let us know that as well.  

6.  Your presentation should not be more than 3-5 slides.

Irrespective of how complex your research, you can do this in the allotted time.  At most, the audience will take away 2 or 3 points from your presentation.  This format allows a lot of good research with maximum educational value to be included in this year's scientific program.

The Speaker Ready Area is available 24 hours a day.  All updated presentations must be loaded in the Speaker Ready Area no later than 8:00 pm, the night prior to your presentation.  For loading your presentation onsite, please follow the posted instructions. 

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Jennifer Campbell at [email protected].