Poster presentations at the International Symposium on Research In Acupuncture offer an opportunity to share your work with an international audience.

The Poster Session is open to medical students, medical doctors, scientists and clinical researchers interested in acupuncture.

The focus of the Poster Session is Acupuncture and Research, with particular reference to the following topics (and related Panel Sessions):

1. Action mechanisms of Acupuncture and current trends in Acupuncture research
2. Methodology of research and EBM in Acupuncture
3. Acupuncture and Placebo
4. Integration of Acupuncture into the healthcare systems: Regulation, Education and Cost-effectiveness

Posters will be on display throughout the Symposium in the foyer of the Congress Palace, with a special designated time for poster viewing where the first authors should be at their posters to present the work and answer questions.

The two best posters will be rewarded at the end of the works: € 250 for the 1° place and € 150 for the 2° place.

For this purpose, the posters will be judged through a mixes evaluation system foreseeing the additional participation of the audience to the assessment made by the Posters' Review Committee.

After the Symposium, upon author's consent, all posters will be published on the School website (www.amabonline.it), on the Symposium website (http://www.acupunctureresearch.eu) and in the Symposium Proceedings.

Poster Submission
The abstract must be sent via e-mail the following e-mail address, mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , by attaching a Word Doc file.

The abstract should not exceed 300 words and should contain the following session: Title, Authors with affiliations, Rationale, Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions, References. Moreover, the selected Symposium topic must be indicated in the email and abstract texts.

The Posters' Review Committee will accept or reject the poster abstract and will notify the corresponding author if the poster has been accepted.

Submission deadline: Monday, September 14, 2015

Abstract and Poster Evaluation
The posters will be judged through a mixed evaluation system foreseeing the additional participation of the audience to the assessment made by the Posters' Review Committee.
The Posters' Review Committee will evaluate the submitted posters' abstracts through a blind peer-review process, by assigning a 1 to 5 score to the following criteria:
1. Relevance of the work for the selected topic;
2. Novelty/innovation of the work;
3. Applicability of the work;
4. Overall quality
5. Compatibility of study design and objectives and applicability of analytical techniques.

At the end of this process, the selected Posters will get a 'base score', and the audience evaluation will be added to this on the day of the Symposium.
The Symposium audience, using a special card delivered by the secretary at the time of registration, will evaluate the posters following criteria:

6. Clarity and efficacy of the oral presentation
7. Readability and visual efficacy of the poster (including text, graphs and figures)
8. Applicability and relevance of the work;

Guidelines for Poster preparation

Poster Format
Vertical format 100x70 cm printed on matt paper 70g is required.

Poster structure and content
The different part of the Poster should be assembled in order to deliver the poster content quickly and clearly. It could be useful to organize the content of the poster in two columns and/or separate the different part of the Poster using different colours or frames. The poster should flow from left to right and top to bottom.
The main contents should include: Title, Authors (with affiliations), Rationale, Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions and References. Moreover, the selected Symposium topic must be indicated.

The text should be brief but complete, focussing as narrowly as possible on the central ideas to be conveyed. Only the amount of information that can be absorbed by the viewer in five minutes or less should be presented.

We advise to:
• Keep it simple
• Emphasize the concepts using highlighted words
• Use few necessary tables and figures to clarify essential concepts
• Remember that the text accompanies the graphics, and not the other way around
• Choose a font size readable by at least 1 meter (we suggest font 24-26 for the body text and 16 for captions)
It could be useful to bring some poster copies in A4 format or similar.

Poster Presentation
Posters should be set up at least 1 hour before the start of the Symposium
At least one of the poster's authors must be registered to the Symposium. Any of the authors can present and discuss the poster content.

A 5-minutes presentation will be allowed for each poster.

A 15-minutes discussion and Q&A session will follow only after the last poster has been presented.

The discussion and Q&A session will be moderated by a chair and will be open to auditors.
The Symposium audience can express themselves until 16.30 giving the evaluation card to the secretariat.

The posters will be removed by the organizing committee members.

Poster Award
The two best posters will be rewarded at the end of the works: € 250 for the 1° place and € 150 for the 2° place.

Symposium Papers Review Committee

Carlo Maria Giovanardi
Alice Josephine Fauci
Alessio Lilli
Annunzio Matrà
Eleonora Marchi
Paolo Roberti di Sarsina
Umberto Mazzanti
Giovanni Battista Allais