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What are the best Im conferences to submit posters/abstracts to present at?

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SGIM (Society of General Internal Medicine) is probably the broadest IM conference most receptive to abstract submissions, with many different abstract categories. They accept a lot of case reports so if you don't have a clinical research project ready you can always send in a case report. Selectivity is moderate. If you have a decent case or clinical research project you should at least get a poster. Orals are often attainable with case reports, harder for clinical research (the clinical research orals are usually really good and not done by residents sadly).

ACP (American College of Physicians) is the most well known IM conference. As a whole, I like ACP more than SGIM but their abstract competition is very selective (again, easier for case reports than clinical research). Orals are basically unheard of, but if your project gets selected as a poster at the ACP conference you're a "National Finalist" and get a special badge at the conference w/ a special reception yada yada (i.e. a good resume booster). The regional ACP conferences are easier though, and they usually take most comers for the poster contests. If you can't get your project accepted at the national ACP you can always start local first.

Going more specific then you have the specialty conferences like ACC for cardiology, ACG for GI, AGS for geriatrics, SHM for hospital medicine...etc. If you want to go even more specific, there are sub-conferences within the specialties, but on a resident level you probably don't need to go so deep.
 
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