The South Dakota State Medical Association announces the Call for Abstracts for presentation at the 2025 Annual Leadership Conference being held on  Friday May 30, 2025 at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Sioux Falls.   

The committee welcomes submissions of abstracts from USD SSOM medical students. Early submission of abstracts is appreciated. The abstract may be from basic science, clinical research or the Humanities.

Submission

Abstracts must be submitted to Keith.Hansen@sanfordhealth.org  and ereiss@sdsma.org.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE – 5 pm CT Friday, March 7, 2025.

Please prepare your submission in accordance with the requirements listed below:

• Abstracts must be submitted in a Word document using Times New Roman Font with a font size of 12 and no more than 300 words (not including title and authors’ names), single-spaced. Do not indent headings.

• Abstracts should be proofread prior to submission. Abstract data cannot be altered after the submission. Title and authors may not be changed.

• Abstracts must be original work and should not have been previously published.

• The initial aspect of the abstract should contain the title and the author(s) name and respective site(s) of the study. The author(s) MUST include a faculty member.

• The text should be structured to describe the objective of the study and results of your work. It should include the following headings:

• Introduction: a brief statement about the purpose of the study and the current state of research in the field.

• Methods: the method(s) of study or data collection used.

• Results: a summary of the study results including sufficient details to support your conclusions.

• Conclusions: a statement explaining the significance of your work and the implications for further research.

• In the title, please include type of study: case report, retrospective cohort study, etc.

• Case reports should be structured as: Introduction, case report, and conclusion.