Action Required: Important Forms

Due Date: 11/4/24

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Please submit this form as soon as possible

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• Please submit your bio and headshot as soon as possible via the form above. If you would like to include any poll questions for your talk, please submit the questions and answers via the form above.

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• a signed disclosure form is required for participation in the conference. Please submit the disclosure form as soon as possible, no later than 11/4/24.
• note: a slide with a disclosure statement is also required at the beginning of all presentations.

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• We ask that you sign a speaker agreement, by which you attest to reading and agreeing to the guidelines for online continuing education. There is a link to the guidelines in the speaker agreement. The guidelines include a description of the conditions under which you may use copyrighted images in your presentation.
• As indicated in the speaker agreement, speakers are responsible for the content in their slides with regard to copyright and Patient Identifiable Information.
• A consent from is required for any individuals featured in images or video.
• Click here to download the consent form.
• Click here to download the consent form in Spanish.
• Please submit the speaker agreement form as soon as possible, no later than 11/4/24.

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• Please submit slides here by 11/4/24.
• The CME department will be reviewing presentations to ensure that they are copyright compliant.
• If citations are missing or other revisions are indicated, we will ask you to revise and resubmit your slides.
• If you have any questions about image citations, please reference the “Image Credits and Journal Citations” tab or contact: courtney.lombard@childrens.harvard.edu.
• Please include 3 (plus or minus) learning objectives at the beginning of your slides.
• It is best practice to determine your objectives for your learners prior to developing your presentation, and then shape your talk to meet the objectives.

Important Dates

Course Director Dates

Image Credits and Journal Citations

• Ideally, permission to use images in your presentation is granted by the rights holder, e.g. by a creative commons or other license, or is in the public domain.
• As noted in the guidelines you are agreeing to, conference presentations fall under fair use, so copyrighted images may be used without permission.
• In order for fair use to apply, source information for images must be provided.
• If the image came from a journal article, include a complete journal citation (or as complete as you can).
• For images that did not come a journal, include
  • “[image title] by,” if title is known, otherwise just use “image by” or “photo by”
  • the image owner’s name and the type of license that covers use of the image.
  • source, e.g., the website from with the image was downloaded
  • the license, if available

Image Citation Examples

Effective Lecturing/Enhanced Learning by Charlie Hatem

Resources

BCH Branded Powerpoint Template

Department of Education Presentation Style Guide

Web Image Tools and Resources