Research

Case Report/Clinical Image Conference Presentation Options:

Regional

• NMCSD Academic Research Competition - Submission Deadline (Generally November)

National

• AAEM Scientific Assembly Photo Competition- Submission Deadline (Generally October)

• SAEM Clinical Image Exhibit - Submission Deadline (Generally November)

• ACEP/AAP Clinical Images - Submission Deadline (Generally April-May) * Generally, section dependent. In the past AAP/ACEP PEM sections and wilderness medicine sections have had contests.

• CORD CPC Competition - Submission Deadline (Generally October-November) * Faculty selection of most interesting case for presentation

Target Journals For EM Case Reports And Clinical Images:

1.) American Journal of Emergency Medicine (2-3 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: Case reports must describe a case treated in the emergency department (not inpatient or operative care) and unique to the emergency medicine literature. Case reports are limited to < 800 words and the abstract < 250 words (unstructured; i.e., no abstract section headings). Reports of ultrasound findings are generally not accepted for publication. Accepted case reports in their entirety will be published digitally at our web site (www.ajemjournal.com), while the abstract will be published in each printed issue.

2.) Annals of Emergency Medicine (1-2 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: Annals publishes very few case reports, and only those we regard as of unusual clinical importance. Cases must be brief descriptions of a previously undocumented disease process, a unique unreported manifestation or treatment of a known disease process, or unique unreported complications of treatment regimens. Entities previously reported in the emergency medicine literature will not be considered, and those reported elsewhere must be extremely important or pertinent to be considered. Include an abstract, introduction, narrative, and a discussion focusing on the implications of the case reported. Do not review the literature in detail. Maximum 1,500 words, 15 references, and 2 figures.

- CLINICAL IMAGES: Images in Emergency Medicine, Photographs of interesting or classic presentations of disease, accompanied by a 1 paragraph description of the patient's presentation and a 1-2 paragraph discussion of the final diagnosis and relevant teaching points (250 words maximum total). Images may include radiographs or microscopy, but not ECGs.

- ECG OF THE MONTH: Submitted cases should be no more than 800 words and contain no more than 3-5 key references or suggested readings. In addition to an illustrative ECG, there should be a short case presentation and a question about the diagnosis or implications of the diagnosis. There should be a detailed description of the ECG essential findings including additional figures when appropriate. The discussion should include a brief clinical course and review of the critical teaching points highlighting the pertinence to the emergency or acute care clinician. Two to four summary teaching points should be provided. All figures should be cited in the text. Submitted images require a resolution of at least 600 dpi at 5 inches width.

3.) Journal of Emergency Medicine (10-12 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: For any paper involving a case report: Headings for Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, and Why should an emergency physician be aware of this? Other descriptive headings and subheadings may be used if appropriate.

- CLINICAL IMAGES: submissions need only have sections for; Introduction, Case Report, and Discussion, and should not have an abstract.

4.) Military Medicine (10-12 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: Describe noteworthy clinical cases, generally a single case but sometimes 2-3 similar cases. The number of references, tables, and figures should be appropriate for the overall length of the paper. Case Reports are limited to 3,000 words, plus an abstract of up to 250 words.

5.) Journal of Special Operations Medicine (10-12 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: No more than 2000 words (includes a nonstructured abstract of 150 words or less), 1–4 figures/tables in total. A case report should illustrate unreported or unusual side-effects or adverse interactions involving medications; unexpected or unusual presentations of a disease; new associations or variations in disease processes; presentations, diagnoses, and/or management of new and emerging diseases; an unexpected association between diseases or symptoms; an unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient; findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect. (https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com).

6.) BMJ Emergency Medicine Journal (2-4 month turnaround time)

- CLINICAL IMAGES: Authors are encouraged to submit images for our Image Challenge. Images that are selected will be published on-line on the EMJ website and may also be selected for publication in the print journal at a later date. Images should be educational, not sensational. Our preference is for images that can be obtained on physical exam or with basic investigations, providing clues to the diagnosis, or indicating the need for advanced imaging. The decision to publish the image will depend on several factors including: 1.) the importance and relevance of the entity to emergency medicine, 2.) the educational value of the image, 3.) the quality of the write-up, including important take-home teaching points. All images must be accompanied by a signed patient consent.

Format:

Title: Since the aim of these articles is to stimulate the reader to think about the case, the title should be ambiguous and not give away the final diagnosis immediately.

Number of authors: 3 maximum

Word count: up to 300 words

References: up to 3

Each image challenge will be presented in two parts:

The first part should contain a very brief (maximum 100 words) clinical introduction to the case, followed by the image and a question designed to stimulate the reader to think about what the image shows. There should be four potential answers listed in multiple-choice format with only one correct answer. The legend for the image should not indicate the diagnosis, but should simply describe the nature of the image e.g. “initial ECG.”

The second part (maximum 200 words) will appear separately from the case and should contain the Answer. The Answer should include a brief description of the key diagnostic features of the image, the outcome, and a teaching point. The Answer should explain why one answer is correct and the others are not. If the image is an ecg, x-ray or ultrasound, please provide a second image, identical to the first, with annotations, such as arrows. If pointing out the important finding, you may also provide a second image to enhance the explanation, e.g. an x-ray result of a physical finding.

The quality of the image must be at least 300dpi and in .tif, .jpeg, .gif or .eps format. Videos for online presentation are also welcomed and should be in .mov, .avi, or .mpeg format.

7.) Clinical Practice Cases in Emergency Medicine (3-4 month turnaround time)

*** $500 processing fee for accepted articles

- CASE REPORTS: To be considered for external review and publication, case reports must describe a very rare or unique clinical condition that demonstrates major importance and impact towards public and population health in emergency medicine. Authors are encouraged to submit case reports that are educational/beneficial, furthering knowledge in emergency medicine. Abstracts should be no more than 100 words, and reports should be no more than 1750 words. Please note that figures, illustrations, or videos are highly recommended to be included (maximum of 3 figures / tables.) The case report should not be submitted if a similar case report has previously been published in CPC-EM.

- CLINICAL IMAGES: Submissions are limited to 300 words. All Images submissions must have at least 1 Figure/Table/Image; no more than 3 Figures/Tables/Images are permitted per submission. We highly encourage both videos (ultrasound and otherwise) and high-quality images. However, it is important to cross reference any media with our image bank on our website to avoid similar publications. In our review and publication process, we make an active effort to avoid submissions that create redundancy within our journal.

- CPC CASES: CPC-EM will only consider Clinical Pathologic Case Conference submissions through our partnerships with the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) and the University of Maryland. Our partners with CORD, CPC finalists, and runners-up from the 2017 competition have been invited to submit their presentations. The important academic contributions from our contracts with the CORD Board of Directors and the University of Maryland allow the submissions to be published at no charge to the authors. For more information, contact editor@cpcem.org.

8.) BMJ Case Reports (3-4 month turnaround time)

- CLINICAL IMAGES: We encourage you to submit all relevant images and there is no restriction on the use of color. Please only submit images of affected areas to preserve patient anonymity. Cropping should be as tight as possible, to eliminate unwanted detail. We accept images in the following formats; jpg, tiff, gif, PowerPoint and eps. All black and white images should be saved to a minimum of 300 dpi. Colour images should be saved and supplied as a high quality file to a minimum of 600 dpi. Colour images should not exceed 2MB at a minimum resolution of 600 dpi. If you choose a higher resolution your image dimension should be reduced accordingly to keep the file under 2MB. NB. Scanners may automatically increase image size at a higher resolution.

- CASE REPORTS: To help you write full case reports we have prepared this template, which provides advice for each section, as well as this leaflet. We also have a template to help you write global health cases. For more information about writing global health case reports, you can visit our blog, download our full guidance (including a field journal form and a family health needs assessment) and read this short peice about why these case reports are so useful. There is no official word count for full cases and global health articles. For full case reports we recommend a limit of 2000 words and for global health articles, we recommend a limit of 4000 words (excluding abstract and references). Images in ... articles should be no more than 500 words.

8.) Pediatric Emergency Care (10-12 month turnaround time)

- CASE REPORTS: An Illustrative Case should present new information or clinical situation that adds to the medical literature. For example, it should be a case that can be described in a standard textbook. There is no set word limit for Illustrative Cases. Authors should organize the text into four main headings: Abstract, Case, Discussion, and Conclusions. In articles that present more than one patient, the second article heading would be "Cases," and "Case 1," "Case 2," and so on would be subheads. Most Illustrative Cases contain images, such as photographs, CT scans, radiographs, etc. These images will be published in black and white unless the author is willing to pay for color reproduction.

Be sure to define abbreviations at first mention in the text and in each table and figure. If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer's name and address (city and state/country).

All Illustrative Cases have references cited by number in the text and a reference list, in citation order, at the end of the article.

- ULTRASOUND CASE REPORTS: Ultrasound Case Reviews will accept case reports and case series relevant to the use of point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency setting. Submissions for this section should adhere to the format below (those that do not follow this format will be returned for reformatting). Note: As of May 2015, in order to improve the speed with which cases are published, a maximum limit of 1500 words has been set for each US Case Review article. This limit includes the abstract, main text, figure and table legends, and references. The maximum number of figures for print publication is 3 (with one image per figure); however, additional images or videos will be considered for supplemental digital content, which will be published online only. Please use the following headings for all submissions to this section: Abstract; Case presentation; US findings (including still images/videos); Technique; Review of the literature; Conclusions; and References. Each article should include all of these headings. Authors also should insert line numbers into their Word document prior to uploading to the Editorial Manager system. For consistency across publications for this section, please use the term "point-of-care ultrasound," rather than "emergency ultrasound" or "bedside ultrasound." Authors should note that the review of the literature should primarily focus on the literature regarding the use of ultrasound for this indication, rather than on the disease process involved. Past issues of the journal are a good source of information on the formatting and content of the Ultrasound Case Reviews. For cases given a decision of revise and resubmit, when submitting a revision, please include an itemized response to the review that includes the reviewer's comment followed by the author's response and relevant line numbers where changes can be found.

* Case Reports can also be submitted to subspecialty journals. Examples of EM physician published case reports in the past have been topical cases in the Journal of Wilderness Medicine, Aviation, Environmental and Space Medicine, and Prehospital Care.

** Be aware of predatory journals. If it is not one of the above journals and they reach out to you directly be wary. All of the above journals are PUB MED referenced and count for ACGME scholarly activity. However, dozens of journals with similar sounding names, which are not PubMed index will reach out to you for submission of articles. Resist this at all costs, it generally gets worse after your first publication. The emails are generally flattering and make an attempt to get you to pay a hefty submission fee for you to submit. You will get little professional benefit from it as it is not considered peer-review and not indexed in PUBMED.

INSTRUCTIONS ON FUNDING FOR PRINTING POSTERS

29MAR2022