Brasov 2025: Call for abstracts and registration now open!
The International Primary Care Respiratory Group, RespiRO and Transilvania University of Braşov are delighted to announce that registration and abstract submission are now open for the 8th IPCRG Scientific Meeting in Brașov, Romania, on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 April 2025. This is your opportunity to network with international colleagues engaged in respiratory research and developments in primary care. We particularly welcome early career researchers.
Details about registration, accreditation and abstract submissions can be found on the conference website, and a summary is included below. We are also planning another in our series of Research Schools and Spirometry Simplified courses. Details will be released shortly. Thursday 10 April is set aside for the annual meeting of our EU and UKRI-funded implementation science project FRESHAIR4Life.
Our Romanian group says "the RespiRO team and the Transilvania University of Brașov are delighted to welcome you to our vibrant and historical city. Alongside the scientific programme, participants will enjoy the rich past and, nestled in the mountains, Brasov provides a unique chance to easily reach the fresh air!"
Call for abstracts
We are excited to open up our call for abstracts for the 8th Scientific Meeting in Brașov, and look forward once again to high quality abstracts and presentations reflecting advances in the field of respiratory primary care.
Abstract categories
Please consult the details on submitting an abstract and the individual abstract guides for each category on the conference website for detailed guidance and information. Submissions should be a maximum of 300 words, plus one image or table to illustrate the work further. Abstracts should be written in full sentences in English. If this is your second language, please have your abstract proofread by a colleague with good written English skills.
- Clinical Research Results: Your abstract may be a summary of the findings of exploratory, effectiveness or implementation research that addresses a clinical question and uses a research method. You must include data and the work must be relevant to a primary care audience with an interest in respiratory health. The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise provide a useful guide.
- Research Ideas: The Research ideas category is for proposals for research that has been carefully planned but is yet to be conducted. This can include protocols for approved research, which may already be underway. The abstract should include the research question, background, methodology and questions to discuss.
- Service Development & Evaluation: Service Development & Evaluation abstracts should evaluate an intervention to create and/or improve a service or interventions that benefit respiratory health, including educational interventions and quality improvement programmes. This can include surveys. It should include the aim, outline of context, a brief description of the change and why you thought it would work, your strategy for change, impact and lessons learned.
For the first time, we are accepting abstracts for Creative Enquiry Presentations: expressing the lived experience through creative or artistic media to help think creatively in primary care. This can be proposed in all 3 abstract categories. Examples of this sort of presentation can be found here.
In 2025 we are also encouraging abstracts on clean air and air pollution, tobacco use and vaping prevention and cessation, planetary health, health equity, adolescent health and the use of social media for health information. This aligns with IPCRG’s partnership in the FRESHAIR4Life project funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI, and compliments our own strategic objectives. Abstracts are welcome from all researchers on these topics, as well as FRESHAIR4Life members, so that we can facilitate and build a supportive network in this important field.
Registration
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Our 8th Scientific Meeting continues our tradition of providing accessible, affordable high quality opportunities to present, learn and discuss primary care respiratory research. Registration will remain open until March 2025, but we encourage you to make your arrangements well in advance to ensure more reasonable travel and accommodation costs. Registration and abstract submissions have opened earlier this year so that people who may need an advance decision to allow time to apply for permissions and visas have time to do this.
When registering, you will also see the option to book accommodation at a special rate. This is on a first come first served basis. The booking for the Scientific Meeting dinner, the Research School and Spirometry Simplified course will open later in 2024.
Who can submit an abstract?
Our audience is academics, clinicians and patient representatives working in primary care settings. Therefore the IPCRG welcomes abstracts from academics and all members of the multi-professional team, including patients & patient representatives, so long as it is relevant to the global primary care respiratory community. Topics should be related to the prevention, diagnosis, management & palliation of communicable & non-communicable respiratory diseases & respiratory risk factors in primary and community settings.
Accreditation
We have applied for accreditation from the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) and the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP). At the last Scientific Meeting we were accredited with 13 European CME credits (ECMEC®s from EACCME) and 11.5 CME credits (EBAP). We are developing a programme that should achieve similar accreditation in 2025. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.