2025 SAAPS Congress – Proudly Hosted By

Registrar’s are specifically invited to submit Abstracts for presentation at the 2025 SAAPS Congress, taking place on the 1st – 4th May 2025. Partial funding support will be provided to Registrars who present. 

Abstracts submission criteria for the 2025 SAAPS Conference

  • The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 4 March 2025

  • Registrars are specifically invited to submit their abstracts.

  • The scientific committee will review all appropriate abstracts.

  • All submissions received will be acknowledged, and authors will be sent acceptance or rejection letters by 5 April 2025

  • The presenting authors of accepted submissions must be registered delegates.

  • Registration costs are at the presenter’s own expense.

  • If data has previously been presented at a (national) or international meeting, the submission should be accompanied by a letter to justify submission to the SAAPS2025 conference.

  • Presenters are responsible for obtaining ethical approval from the appropriate hospital or university authorities and hiding their patients’ identities.

Instructions to Authors:

               •            Abstract Title (Ensure the title does not exceed twenty-five words).

               •            Provide the surnames and initials of all authors, with the surname of the presenting author underlined.

               •            Affiliation of author(s)

·        Do not include qualifications.

·        Ensure your abstract does not exceed 250 words.

Please adhere to the following format:

               •            Introduction: The introduction should be brief and informative

               •            The aim and objective: describe what the research aims to achieve.

               •            Methods: include a description of subjects and research methodology.

               •            Results: outline the study’s findings supported by statistics as appropriate

  • Please do NOT use figures, graphs, or tables in the abstract.

  • The data provided must be sufficient to permit peer review of the abstract.

               •            Conclusion: provide a summary and relevance of the main findings.

·       Abstracts that do not adhere to the specific format will not be accepted.

·       All accepted abstracts will be published without further editing.

·       Abstracts not selected for oral presentation MAY be considered for poster presentations.