Nexus Summit 2024 Abstract Submission Portal

Nexus Summit 2024: Navigating Complexity to Advance Outcomes Call for Abstracts

Nexus Summit 2024: Navigating Complexity to Advance Outcomes returns to an all-virtual format, allowing for broad and accessible engagement of stakeholders in health. The Nexus Summit 2024 Call for Abstracts includes six themes and four presentation formats that will maximize opportunities for attendees to showcase their accomplishments, outcomes, and innovations.

The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education is calling for abstracts for peer-reviewed Seminars, Lightning Talks, Professional Posters, and Interprofessional Learner Posters. Please review the Call for Abstracts in detail before submitting your abstract here.

Submissions are encouraged from teams and individuals working to improve learning and health outcomes in practice and/or education settings. This may include clinicians, educators, learners, policy makers, lay persons engaged in co-creation of practice and/or education, individuals, families, and caregivers, and those involved in interprofessional practice and education in all settings. 

The submission deadline is May 24, 2024. All submissions will be peer reviewed and submitters will be notified of the National Center’s decisions no later than July 22, 2024.  

Conference Themes:

Examples of abstract topics that may be accepted in each theme can be found here.

1. Person, Family and Community-Engaged Practice and Education

2. Interprofessional Collaboration and Advocacy to Address Health Equity, Racism and Bias in Practice

3. Building the Evidence Base for Interprofessional Practice and Education

4. Advancing Interprofessional Care through Practice-Education Partnerships 

5. Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education

6. Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
 

Peer Review Criteria:

All abstracts will be peer reviewed according to the following core criteria:

• Aligns with the selected theme.
• Represents an interprofessional initiative in which members of two or more professions work together and learn about, from, and with each other. 
• Provides Nexus Summit attendees the opportunity to gain practical knowledge and skills.
• Seminars and Lightning Talk abstracts - A call to action for attendees 

Priority will be given to abstracts demonstrating one or more of the following:

• Meaningful engagement and inclusion of patient, individual, family, community, and/or caregiver perspective
• Inclusion of one or more patients on the author or presenter team
• Inclusion of one or more students/learners on the author or presenter team
• Measurable learning and/or health outcomes
• Measurable impact of interprofessional teams on health equity
• Identification and addressing of factors beyond clinical care (e.g. social determinants) that affect the health of individuals, communities, and populations
• Design to impact Quadruple Aim outcomes (enhancing patient experience, improving population health, increasing value, and improving the wellness of the health care team)

Interprofessional Continuing Education:

In support of improving patient care, this activity is being planned and implemented by the National Center Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is Jointly Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approve Continuing Education (ACE) program, the Athletic Training Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry's Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE). 

Our intent is to provide these types of professional continuing education credit, as well as Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (IPCE) for Plenaries, Seminars, and Lightning Talks at Nexus Summit 2024. Presenters will be required to comply with all Joint Accreditation guidelines, disclose all financial relationships, and work with the National Center OICPD to mitigate all conflicts of interest prior to Nexus Summit 2024. Draft or final Seminar and Lightning Talk PowerPoint presentations will be required to be submitted prior to Nexus Summit 2024 for accreditation and presentation.

Submission Process and Presenter Instructions:

All abstract submissions will be completed online through this portal, which will guide you through the process. Presenters may access the site as often as they like to modify their abstracts until they officially submit the abstract, on or before the final submission deadline. Presenters will be notified of submission status immediately after an abstract is submitted. Please ensure that your abstract has been successfully submitted by clicking the final "submit" button once all elements of your abstract are entered. Incomplete submissions will not be considered for acceptance. All correspondence (primarily through email) will be sent to the submitter of the abstract.

All presenting authors must register and attend the Nexus Summit 2024. Presenters are responsible for their own conference registration fees. Registrations will open in April 2024. 

Audio/video recordings may be made of all accepted presentations to be made available to registrants in a recorded format. Your submission of an abstract constitutes your agreement that a recording can be made and distributed by the National Center.

For questions about abstract submission, contact ipceapps@umn.edu.