FULL RESEARCH PAPER COMPETITION

We cordially invite your participation in the Full Research Paper Competition of the HKPCC 2024. The Competition is a long-standing tradition of the College’s Annual Conference to promote and recognize well-designed and innovative research which bears potential impact on clinical practice or development of primary care. This year, we will have TWO Awards:

AWARDS

Best Research Paper Award

Best New Investigator Research Paper Award

The HKPCC 2024 Organizing Committee will invite renowned scholars as judges to review the participating papers. Both winners will receive a Certificate of Award and will be invited to present their research papers at the Conference.

ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHOR GUIDELINES

For Best Research Paper Award: the first author of the paper must meet ALL of the following conditions:
(1) The author must register for the Conference;
(2) The author completes the majority of the research and writing for the paper;
(3)The author has not used the paper to apply for other awards;

(4) The paper had not been awarded in other competitions in the past; and
(5) If the paper has already been published, it must be published after 1 January 2022.

For Best New Investigator Research Paper Award: the first author of the paper must meet ALL of the following conditions:
(1) The author must register for the Conference;
(2) The author completes the majority of the research and writing for the paper;
(3) The author has not used the paper to apply for other awards;

(4) The paper had not been awarded in other competitions in the past;
(5) If the paper has already been published, it must be published after 1 January 2022; and
(6) The first author must not have published any other research paper in any scientific journal as the first author before (for example, The Hong Kong Practitioner, Hong Kong Medical Journal or other academic journals).

* Recent successful exit examination candidates (in research segment) are also encouraged to submit for this award.

The participating paper should be a full-length article. It should include a structured abstract of no more than 250 words. The text should contain at least 2,000 words, organized as INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY, RESULTS and DISCUSSION. It should consist of no more than 6 illustrations (tables/figures). Only electronic versions are accepted. The full paper should be typed in 12-point size format in Microsoft Word format.

The selected abstracts of the papers will be published in the promotional materials of the Conference, including, but not limited to, website and brochures.
The Organizing Committee reserves the right for the final editing of the abstracts to the required standard format for publication.
The author should warrant that all the information and content provided to the Hong Kong Primary Care Conference and the College does not infringe any third-party rights, including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights.
The author grants the Organizing Committee a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, translate, distribute, and display the paper.

AWARD SELECTION CRITERIA

Each paper will be evaluated against the following criteria:

(1) Academic rigor of the paper (e.g. originality, methodology, organization, and presentation).

(2) Relevance and impact to primary care (e.g. importance of the topic and the impact of the findings on the practice or development of primary care).

The panel reserves the right of granting/ withholding an award for this year.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Full Research Paper Submission Form

Please complete the above submission form and send your full research paper to hkpcc@hkcfp.org.hk.

All entries will be acknowledged upon receipt.

For enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact our Conference Secretariat, Ms. Carol Pang or Ms. Nana Choy, at 2871 8899 or by email hkpcc@hkcfp.org.hk.

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