To better highlight the diversity of research topics and presentation styles, the Oral Presentations are divided into two main categories: Slideshow Presentations and Poster Presentations. Both the Slideshow and the Poster Presentations will have the following categories: Fundamental Sciences, Clinical Sciences and Surgical Sciences.
You may submit a maximum of 2 abstracts but if more than one of your abstracts is accepted, please note that you will be contacted by our team to select which one of them will be presented, given that you can not present more than one abstract, regardless if they:
- are in different contests (Poster versus Slideshow Presentations)
- are in different sections (Fundamental/Clinical/Surgical Sciences)
- are in different categories (Review/Original Study/Case Report).
You will receive a notification regarding the initial acceptance status of your abstract on October 31st, 2025, before the registration period ends. This announcement will include the preliminary ranking, based on the evaluation criteria published on the website. Participants will then have the opportunity to request a reevaluation until November 2nd, 2025 (23:59 UTC+2), and the final list of accepted abstracts will be published on November 3rd, 2025.
All Poster Presentations will be held exclusively on-site on Friday, the 5th of December, 2025. The Slideshow Presentations will be held exclusively on-site on Saturday, the 6th of December, 2025. The exact schedule and location information will be shared with the participants before the 15th of November. When submitting the abstract, every Presenter gives their consent to have their name mentioned in the final ranking of the scientific papers. All participants will be able to attend the presentation of the abstracts and they will also have the right to ask questions to the Presenter. However, these are not mandatory events and cannot be booked by following the standard booking procedure. One can attend by simply coming to the auditorium at the mentioned presentation date and time. Places will be limited in accordance with the room capacity, health regulations and administrative decisions.
In advance, every participant that has been accepted for the Oral Presentations will have to send their visual support (.ppt/.pptx for the Slideshow presentations or the electronic format of the Poster for the Poster Presentations) until the 22nd of November 2025, 23:59 GMT+2 (Romanian time zone) at the e-mail address: abstracts@imscbucharest.com.
The full time schedule will be available for the participants before the 15th of November, 2025.
During Oral Presentations’ day, the order in which the sections will be presented during the Slideshow presentations is the following:
- Review
- Original Study
- Case Report
For each of the sections, the alphabetical order will be respected.
The presentation time for each participant will be 7 minutes for Slideshow presentations and 5 minutes for Poster Presentations, followed by a 3 minutes Q&A session (both the members of the Evaluation Committee and the other Presenters and Participants will be allowed to ask questions). You will be notified during the presentation when there are 3 minutes and respectively 1 minute left of the presentation time. Please note that exceeding the time limit will influence your final score!
In case of exceeding the time limit with more than 1 minute, the presentation will have to be ceased by a member of the Organising Committee.
Every Presenter will receive all the information regarding the Oral Presentations via the email address used for the registration process.
Presenters’ Duties:
The Presenters must be present 15 minutes before the start of the Oral Presentations competition.
The Presenters cannot leave the room before the end of the last presentation from their category (Fundamental Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Surgical Science); otherwise, they will be disqualified.
The Organising Committee of IMSCB is not responsible if any of the conditions specified above is not met.
The official language of the Congress is English. This being given, the visual support (Slideshow or Poster), the oral presentations and the short Q&A session for each participant will all be held in English. No other language is accepted.
As far as the visual support is concerned, please make sure you adhere to the rigours imposed here.
The presentation time for each participant will be 7 minutes for Slideshow Presentations, and 5 minutes for Poster Presentations, followed by a 3-minute Q&A session (both the members of the Evaluation Committee and the other Presenters and Participants will be allowed to ask questions). You will be notified during the presentation when there are 3 minutes and respectively 1 minute left of the presentation time. Please note that exceeding the time limit will influence your final score!
Your speech should be clear and coherent. We kindly suggest that you speak freely, without using any supplementary support except the slides of the presentation. This is a simple manner to improve the Evaluation Committee’s opinion on your public speaking abilities and to make an honest self-evaluation of your efforts. And do not forget: you are the best storyteller as far as the story of your research is concerned! Make the most of it!