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2025 Australian Pain Society 45th Annual Scientific Meeting

2025 Australian Pain Society 45th Annual Scientific Meeting in the IASP Global Year about Pain Management, Research and Education in
Low- and Middle-income Settings
13 - 16 April 2025 | Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, VIC

Poster Presentation Guidelines

Once again, both hard and soft copy posters will be displayed. Please read through the information below carefully and ensure you complete all tasks by the allocated deadline.

Hard Copy Posters & Poster Numbers

Posters are to be in-place by 10.30am on Monday 14 April 2025 and will be displayed for the duration of the conference in the Exhibition Hall at the Pullman Melbourne Albert Park. The exhibition hall will be open from 6.00pm on Sunday evening, for the Welcome Reception.

Hard copy posters should be printed in “AO Portrait” (1,189mm high x 841mm wide). Presenters are required to bring their own hook-and-loop velcro for attachment to the board (double sided tape or blu tac are not suitable).

Poster walk around sessions will take place during the lunch breaks on both Monday or Tuesday of the conference.  During these sessions, hard copy posters will be judged, please stand by your poster should delegates or the judges have any questions with regards to your research.

Poster authors have been allocated a day  and poster number, authors were emailed on 26 February.

Digital Poster

Your poster will also be displayed electronically. Please upload your single page PDF to the following Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/request/IbnxeQQS1kDJBRZorhxC

Please format the name of your poster as follows: PosterNumber_Surname_APS2025 Digital Poster.

Your digital poster will be included in a resource gallery, accessible through the APS 2025 conference app, alongside a copy of your abstract.

All digital poster files must be submitted via the Dropbox link above by Monday 31 March 2025. Any submissions received after this deadline will not be confirmed. If you have any questions relating to your digital poster submission, please contact the Conference Secretariat

Poster Format: #betterposter

 

Most conferences and ASM’s use the same, old, wall-of-text poster design. We know, we’ve been doing it too!

 

The APS wants to try to improve the efficiency of the transfer of knowledge at their ASM, by encouraging authors to use the #betterposter format.

 

Traditional, wall-of-text posters make delegates search for the main finding. The aim of the #betterposter template is to make sharing the main findings of each poster easier.

 

For an interesting video that explains what a #betterposter is, please watch this video: How to create a better research poster in less time


If you've used #betterposter before and are ready to make your work stand out even more, click here

 

If you choose to use this format, please note:

  • Poster’s still need to be printed in AO Portrait. To download the template please click here
  • The main colour of your poster is up to you. Colours haven’t been allocated to a certain abstract type or theme
  • QR Codes: If you choose to include one on your poster, a unique code can be made here
 

Social Media

The APS have a strong online following. Join us online!

X (formerly Twitter) account: @AusPainSoc
Facebook account: www.facebook.com/australian.pain.society/
Conference and Society hashtag: #AusPainSoc

We will be sharing updates about the conference so make sure to follow us and please feel free to repost our messages or post in advance about your own involvement in the conference.

Suggested post: I'm presenting a poster at APS2025! Join me and @AusPainSoc in Melbourne, 13 - 16 April 2025 dccam.com.au/aps2025 #AusPainSoc

Poster Prize

The Australian Pain Society will offer a prize of $500 for the best poster. The winner will be announced on the last day of the Scientific Meeting, on Wednesday 16 April 2025. Your poster will also be displayed in the plenary hall. Please note, only hard copy posters will be judged and considered for the prize. We encourage you to stay for the presentation.

Rapid Communication Sessions & Prize

You will be notified if your poster is chosen to be included in a Rapid Communication Session.

The Australian Pain Society will offer a prize of $750 for the best Rapid Communication. The winner will be announced on the last day of the Scientific Meeting, on Wednesday 16 April 2025. Your poster will also be displayed in the plenary hall. 

  • Each presenter will be given 90 seconds only to speak. Presenters are allowed to use ONE PowerPoint slide only, with no moving videos or images. 
  • This is a fast moving session so the AV team will start to play music at 80 seconds, which will get increasingly louder as you get closer - and if you go over, 90 seconds.

These sessions are meant to be a light-hearted break in between the longer plenary talks, so have fun with it! The most memorable Rapid Communication presentations are always the ones that have taken a creative angle to their presentation. 

Registration

All presenters must register by the early bird registration deadline of Tuesday 18 February 2025, for their presentation to be included in the program.

A personalised registration link has been sent to all poster presenters. If you cannot find this link you can also just register here

A reminder no funding or discounted registrations are available for submitted abstracts authors.

Please note, even if you choose to only display an electronic copy of your poster you must still register and attend at least one day of the conference. Posters only displayed in electronic form will not be considered for the Poster Award.

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If you have any questions, or can no longer present your poster please contact the APS ASM Conference Secretariat via apsasm@dccam.com.au