Abstract Submission

All authors of abstracts accepted for a poster presentation are required to produce a poster to be displayed at the ASM and on the RA-UK meeting app. For the app, this must be an Adobe Acrobat file (pdf).

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Posters should meet the following criteria:

All posters must be A0 (84.1 cm x 118.9 cm).
All posters must be portrait
Text size and font is at the discretion of the authors but text must be clear and legible
Colour is recommended, particularly for imagery
All posters must have the title at the top, in bold.
Authors must be clearly shown

PDF's must be emailed to  ffionskelding@eventmanagementdirect.co.uk no later than Friday the 24th April 2026 to be included in the conference app.

Please try and be available during the session break emailed to you to answer any questions that attendees reviewing your poster on the boards may wish to ask, and check and respond to any comments/questions left online regarding your work. These may come from the reviewers!

Additionally, if you have a Twitter account and would like to receive questions from the RA-UK ASM delegates regarding your poster, add your Twitter handle at the bottom of the poster.

Presentations will take place beside your poster in the display area. Please note that the abstracts have already been marked.

You can register at: https://ra-uk.org/asm/register 

Please note, you are unable to present virtually.

Presentations are an opportunity to briefly present your poster and for expert faculty to informally discuss your work.

Posters will not be printed for you.

Please either bring a printed A0 colour poster with you to the event or use our partner printing service, Science Posters

It is not compulsory, but it is strongly recommended to utilise our partner printing service Science Posters: https://www.scienceposters.co.uk/rauk.htm who will print the poster and we will put the poster up for you.  The deadline for this is the 20th April.

Finally, if you haven’t made a scientific poster before:

Poster templates are widely available online. 
Use the same structure as the abstract submission. 
The text is not required to be the same as the abstract, but usually abstracts contain about the right amount of text for a scientific paper. 
Use colour and figures to supplement the text. 

Abstract submission - 9th January, 2026

Abstract submission closes - 27th March, 2026, 23:59

Confirmation of abstract acceptance - 9th April, 2026

All abstracts will be judged by an expert panel, using a standardized scoring system.

Please note that as a resident doctor competition, a resident doctor must be the first author of the abstract. It will not be possible to offer individual feedback on abstracts that are not accepted.

The 3 best abstracts will be invited to give an oral presentation at the ASM.

All accepted authors have the option to display poster at the conference and abstracts will be published on the conference app and website.

A minimum of one author from each abstract is expected to register for the conference and attend the event in person. Those who are unable to attend in person will have their poster on the app and website only.  

The top 3 abstracts will be published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia!

The top 3 abstracts Authors are invited to present orally at the conference.

1st place: ESRA Congress registration fee and additional costs up to £500 and 1 year RA-UK membership.

2nd place: RA-UK Annual Meeting registration fee and additional costs up to £250 and 1 year RA-UK membership.

3rd place: £250 and 1 year RA-UK membership.

(Prizes will be entitled for one author).