Instructions: (please read carefully BEFORE submitting your Abstract)
Failure to comply with any of the below rules may result in immediate disqualification.
- Research abstract submissions are primarily open to Doctors and Dentists in Training in Northern Ireland, including current NIMDTA trainees and those who have undertaken NIMDTA training during the 2025/26 academic year.
- Undergraduate Medical Students are NOT eligible for this research opportunity.
- Abstracts must be original work, completed within the past 18 months.
- Abstracts must NOT have been previously published elsewhere, e.g. Med Archive or similar.
Authorship Confirmation
Responsibility for decisions regarding the authorship of the research lies with those who carried out the work reported in the abstract. Researchers should be aware of the authorship practices within their own disciplines and should always abide by any requirements stipulated by journals as part of their instructions to authors.
Normally, an author is an individual judged to have made a substantial intellectual or practical contribution to a publication and who agrees to be accountable for that contribution. This would normally include anyone who has:
- made a significant contribution to the conception or design of the project or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND/OR
- drafted the work or reviewed/revised it critically for important intellectual content.
This is general guidance only and may not apply to all disciplines or journals which may set different standards.
Anyone listed as an author on an abstract submission should approve the final version and accept responsibility for ensuring that he or she is familiar with its contents and can identify his or her contribution to it.
Researchers are advised to seek guidance on practice within their own discipline and to consult guidelines set by the funders of their research and the journals in which they hope to publish.
NIMDTA, QUB, UU or UMS will not accept any responsibility for errors relating to authorship of research conducted.
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Abstracts to be submitted by no later than 5pm on Friday 11th September 2026.