British Thoracic Society BTS

Dates: Thursday 5 - Friday 6 July 2012
Venue: York Racecourse, York  (MAP)

The BTS Summer Meeting offers a fantastic programme that is both complementary to the Winter Meeting and increasingly aligned with the other educational activities of the Society including e-learning and Short Courses.

In a programme that has more symposia than ever, we are delighted to be able to offer a wide range of topics to meet the needs of all our members and others. The Mini Short Course format continues, this year exploring the areas of Occupational Lung Disease and Clinical Physiology in depth. Driven by feedback and SCE examination results, the Education and Training Committee has very purposefully placed a significant emphasis on Clinical Physiology in this Meeting and in addition to the Mini Short Course there is a joint ARTP/BTS symposia, Physiology Quiz and a keynote lecture on “Why clinical physiology is important”.

For the full programme and more information about the Summer Meeting and to download the booking form click here.

Book online here

Early Bird booking deadline is 11 May 2012. 
 

The Trustees of the British Thoracic Society and the BTS Education & Training Committee are pleased to announce three new Awards for 2012.  Abstracts (350 words max) are now being invited for consideration.  Read on for more details.

The Awards are open to ALL members of the healthcare team.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is FRIDAY 30th MARCH 2012.  The abstracts will be refereed by a panel of 6 judges in each category, and the best 3 in each category will be asked to present their work during a session in the 2012 BTS SUMMER MEETING programme – held next year in York on 5th & 6th July.  The shortlisted abstracts will be published in the conference programme and on the BTS website.

The 3 categories are:-

INTEGRATION OF RESPIRATORY SERVICES

This Award recognises that those involved in providing respiratory health care are required to think smarter and develop services closer to the patient and in collaboration with others.  We wish to hear from teams who can demonstrate that they have improved care by service re-design and collaboration across boundaries.  This may mean integration within healthcare settings as well as with social care.  The abstract should provide evidence of the aims of the project, how it developed, and the outcome- results should demonstrate the effective integration of care across traditional boundaries in a patient-centred and effective manner.  Evidence submitted may include, for example, impact on outcomes such as length of stay, proportion of patients receiving specialist care and so on.

INNOVATION IN THE DELIVERY OF RESPIRATORY CARE

Have you and your team developed something that has revolutionised the care that you are able to give to your respiratory patients?  Are you working with patients and carers in a new way to transform respiratory care for patients?   Were they involved in the service re-design – and if so, how?  Is the innovation sustainable and reproducible (i.e. was it more than a pilot that failed because of resource implications)?   Can you demonstrate this?   If so, this Award should attract your attention.

EXCELLENCE /INNOVATION IN DELIVERY OF EDUCATION

This Award will recognise the work that is being done by teams or individuals throughout the UK to bring improvements in care via educational initiatives.  If you have a programme that has been designed for your peers, for other health care professionals and /or patient and their carers, and feel that this is innovative and you can demonstrate how the educational initiative has developed services, then we want to hear from you.
 

• To submit an abstract for these awards click here.

Thursday 5th July 2012, 2.00pm to 3.30pm

The BTS calls for all specialist trainees and health care professionals to submit clinical cases to the BTS Clinical Grand Round Symposium Presentation Competition.  The three best submissions will be invited to present their cases at the BTS Summer Meeting, where an interactive keypad system will be in use.  Certificates will be presented to all three finalists and there will be a financial prize for the overall winner.

Guidelines for submission:

• It is encouraged that cases do not focus on esoteric/rare disease presentations. It is entirely appropriate to present aspects of commonly encountered diseases/presentations that provide the audience with key learning points, whilst providing a diagnostic or management challenge
• Submit an outline of your case presentation, in PowerPoint format
• Maximum of 10 slides at this stage, including introduction, description of case, three questions in MCQ format, and conclusion slide with learning points
• No pictures/CTs etc are required for the submission, but these should be added later if shortlisted for the Summer Meeting presentation
• Please note that the final presentation at the Meeting will be for 20 minutes
• Submissions to be sent to:  bts@brit-thoracic.org.uk.  File to be named as: Grandround-surnameinitial.ppt (eg for Dr John Smith, the file name will be Grandround.smithj.ppt)
• For further details/queries contact Dr Ian Forrest via email to: Ian.Forrest@nuth.nhs.uk
• Final date for submissions is Wednesday 11th April 2011 at noon
• The three successful finalists will be informed in the week commencing 14th May 2012, to allow time to prepare for the symposium on Thursday 5th July 2012.

This information can be downloaded as a pdf document here