These instructions provide guidelines and forms
to ensure your presentation is in keeping with national continuing
education standards.
The intent of Updates in Correctional Health Care: Partners in
Public Health is to share innovative developments, practices and
research findings with conference attendees. All abstracts will
be published in the proceedings manual on CD-ROM.
Presentation and speaker information will be listed in the
conference preliminary and final programs. For your convenience,
all meeting rooms will be equipped with a podium, microphone,
screen, head table and LCD projector. Speakers are responsible
for bringing their own laptops. To order additional equipment
(e.g., a TV/VCR), contact
deborahross@ncchc.org.
With the exception of preconference seminars, all presentations
are scheduled for Monday or Tuesday, April 26-27.
Download the Schedule-at-a-Glance
to see the agenda for the entire conference.
Your presentation should conform with
these policies of the NCCHC education committee:
- Content must be related to health care provided in correctional settings.
- The topic must be timely and relevant.
- Content must be accurate.
- Content must be based on scientific modalities of diagnosis or therapy
(if applicable).
- The presentation must not show preference for one product or service over
another unless there is a clear scientific or objective basis to do so, or unless
the presentation format allows for a fair presentation of alternatives.
- Corporate support, if any, must be disclosed.
- If applicable, the presentation must be consistent with
NCCHC standards and promote their use.
- Presenters' credentials should be appropriate to present the
subject matter.
- The presentation should be sufficiently in-depth to require the full time allotment (usually one hour).
- Presentation goals and objectives should correspond with the
conference goals and objectives (stated above).
Speaker Registration
All presenters are required to register for the conference by
March 1. A
special rate of $190 is available for presenters. If you have co-presenters,
please forward the Speaker Registration Form to them.
Presenter
Guidelines
These presenter guidelines were developed to help make your
presentation as effective as possible.
