2025 VA-ACS Bigger-Lehman Submission Form

The 2025 Annual Meeting will take place May 30 & 31, 2025 at the beautiful Marriott Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Virginia Beach, VA. The VSS Research & Scholarship Committee invites you to submit a manuscript to be considered for presentation in the program. The deadline for the 2025 program is Monday, January 6, 2025.

BIGGER-LEHMAN SUBMISSIONS
This award is given to two surgical Residents and/or Fellows in an approved surgical program in the Commonwealth. A complete manuscript that is either unpublished or published within the last calendar year of the VA-ACS meeting must be submitted by the January 6 deadline. A faculty member co-author of the study accepted for presentation must be a member of the ACS and the VA-ACS.

There will be a first place ($500) and a second place ($250) winner. The winners are expected to present their papers at the 2025 annual meeting. The VSS Research & Scholarship Committee will cover reasonable travel expenses to attend the conference.

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Are you a VA-ACS Member? Join online at www.VirginiaACS.org! Resident and medical student membership is free.*

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Has this manuscript been submitted to the Chapter (as an abstract for the annual meeting or as a COT or COC paper competition entry)?

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If you would like to submit this manuscript for consideration of oral prentation in the event it does not win the Bigger-Lehman award, please complete the abstract submission form here.

Author Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

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In accordance with ACCME regulations, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone who is in a position to control the content of the education activity has disclosed to us all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest (see below for definitions) as it pertains to the content of the abstract. Should it be determined that a conflict of interest exists as a result of a financial relationship you may have, you will be contacted and methods to resolve the conflict will be discussed with you. In addition, all affirmative disclosures must be revealed at the beginning of the abstract. Failure or refusal to disclose or the inability to resolve the identified conflict will result in the withdrawal of the invitation to participate.

I do not have relevant financial relationships with commercial interests that pertain to the content of my abstract.I do have relevant financial relationships with commercial interests that pertain to the content of my abstract.

List the names of proprietary entities producing health care goods or services, with the exemption of non-profit or government organizations and non-health care related companies with which you or your spouse/partner have, or have had, a relevant financial relationship within the past 12 months. For this purpose we consider the relevant financial relationships of your spouse or partner that you are aware of to be yours.

Explain what you or your spouse/partner received (i.e. salary, honorarium etc.).

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What was received: Salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g. stocks, stock options, etc.), or other financial benefit.

Role: Employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, etc.

If your abstract describes the use of a device, product, or drug that is not FDA approved or the off-label use of an approved device, product, or drug or unapproved usage, it is your responsibility to disclose this information verbally in your abstract.

Glossary of Terms

Commercial Interest

A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.

Financial Relationships

Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

Relevant Financial Relationships

The ACCME focuses on financial relationships with commercial interests in the 12-month period preceding the time that the individual is being asked to assume a role controlling content of the CME activity. ACCME has not set a minimal dollar amount for relationships to be significant. Inherent in any amount is the incentive to maintain or increase the value of the relationship. The ACCME defines “’relevant’ financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest.

Conflict of Interest

Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of a commercial interest with which he/she has a financial relationship.

I agree that I will not accept honorarium, travel expenses, in-kind contributions, or any other support from commercial companies in connection with this activity.By checking this box I certify that I have identified and disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests and that all information provided herein is true and correct.

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Bigger-Lehman Award Submission Form

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