Pharmacy Practice Research Virtual Summer Meeting for PhD students, Postdoctoral fellows and supervisors

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The FIP Pharmacy Practice Research SIG (PPR SIG) was created with the main scope of increasing pharmacy practice contributions to global health through the provision of greater access to the latest high-quality international pharmacy practice research. The PPR SIG also aims to cultivate an international forum for the dissemination of quality, international pharmacy practice research for all stakeholders and stimulate communication, discussion, networking, and collaboration between international pharmacy practice stakeholders.

Based on this objective, this PPR virtual summer meeting aims to increase the quality and quantity of pharmacy practice research by exchanging and disseminating information at an international level. New networks and collaborations will be established on major themes for experienced researchers and higher degree students. The event will involve a number of activities including research oral presentations, workshops and a networking event.

Who will be interested to attend: PhD students and their supervisors are invited to this unique international virtual meeting to present their work and to start building new global pharmacy networks. Researchers, academics, professional organisations and practitioners involved in research are also very welcome!

The programme of the virtual meeting will take from 10.00 – 14.00 CEST will be as follow:

• Opening and Welcome
• Introduction to the Pharmacy Practice Research SIG
• Three-minute presentation (in total 20)
• Break
• Three-minute presentation (in total 20)
• Workshops
  • New trends on economic evaluations
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: an overview of the new PRISMA statement
  • New trends on medication adherence research
• Networking event
• Closing forum (including prizes)

You can register for three-minute research presentations by submitting an abstract of your research. All abstracts will be reviewed through a competitive selection process by the conference committee. Twenty authors will be invited to present their work in a pre-recorded three-minute presentation. They will also be invited to answer questions from the audience during the event.

The abstract body should be maximum 300 words (excluding title and author information). We do not accept tables, figures or complete references in the abstracts. After submitting your abstract you will not be able to edit/modify it. In submitting an abstract you have to agree to the following terms and conditions:

• I confirm that each author/presenter listed agrees with the content of the abstract submitted and has given permission to be listed as an author/presenter.
• Where required, I have obtained the necessary research ethics approval for the project described in the abstract submitted.
  The abstracts submission deadline is 06 June 2021