Call for Abstracts
Abstract Submissions - CLOSED!
The Call for Abstracts for the annual ANZAHPE Conference, to be held in Perth, Australia from the 30th of June - 3rd of July 2025, is now open!
The conference theme for 2025 is "Horizons - Embracing the Future". We invite all health professional educators, clinical educators, educational researchers, health education providers, health professional students and those involved in innovative health profession educational practice to submit an abstract.
We urge you to take this opportunity to be an active part of the conference. We encourage you to share your experiences and visions for the future of health professions education with fellow delegates. Our conference will enable you to expand your professional network. We are working hard to ensure you will find the conference to be rewarding and a stimulating experience.
Key Dates
Call for Abstracts: CLOSED
Author Notification: April 2025
Program Announced: April 2025
Presentation Types
- Oral 15 minutes (10 minutes to present + 5 minutes for discussion)
- Poster 5 minutes (3 minutes to present + 2 minutes for discussion)
- Personally Arranged Learning Session* (PeArLS) 45 minutes (5 minutes to introduce topic or issue +35 minutes for discussion + 5 minutes to wrap up)
- Pre-Conference Workshop* 90 minutes (30 minutes to present interwoven with 60 minutes of discussion and ‘doing things’ by participants). Please note only a limited number of Pre-Conference Workshops and PeArLS can be accepted.
Please note, that in in 2025, Symposium sessions will be by invitation only and are not included in the call for abstracts.
Abstracts must reasonably address an aspect of health professions education. The conference program is strategically designed to maximise engagement and knowledge exchange. With focussed oral presentations and extensive opportunities for interactive discussions, the program aims to create an environment for sharing practice and insights.
Abstracts submitted for oral presentation will be peer-reviewed and may be allocated to either oral or poster sessions based on program alignment and available spaces. Both formats offer distinct opportunities: oral presentations provide focused narrative delivery, while poster sessions enable extended dialogue and valuable networking with colleagues specifically interested in your research area.
All abstracts must be submitted online via the ANZAHPE Conference 2025 website by midnight Australian Eastern Daylight Time, 7 February 2025.
Presentation Streams
To help us organise the programme in groups of sessions on related topics, we ask that you select a stream that best matches the focus of your abstract.
Streams for 2025 include innovations, scholarship, and research about:
- Assessment: Abstracts should focus on written tests, feedback, clinical examinations, performance appraisal / feedback, and workplace-based assessment
- Culture: Abstracts can address the culture broadly as how teachers and students interact with each other. Culture can focus on teaching and learning practices we establish in classrooms and workplaces and include topics such as classroom climate and workplace hierarchies. Culture can also focus on socioeconomic, ethnic, and national aspects of education such as indigenous perspectives.
- Designing Curriculum and Planning Learning: Abstracts should focus on planning processes at the activity, course, programmes-level such as curriculum development, instructional design, identifying assessment or evaluation needs.
- Education in workplace settings: Abstracts should emphasise workplace learning, continuing professional development, and teaching or research initiatives in workplace settings such as hospitals and community healthcare centres.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Abstracts should focus on concerns and initiatives that address issues, barriers, and enablers to student and faculty participation and contribution in health professions education.
- Faculty Development: Abstracts should related to the professional development of health professions educators as individuals or groups. Topics can include evaluating teacher performance, professional identify formation of educators, career progression, and leadership.
- Interprofessional Learning: Abstracts that specifically address learning involving multiple professions or disciplines. Topics can include teamwork more generally.
- Professionalism: Abstracts should address issues and studies related to topics such as professional conduct and professional identity formation.
- Selection: Abstracts that relate to selection for study at different levels including selection strategies, tools, outcomes, and widening access.
- Teaching and Facilitating Learning: Abstracts should relate to instructional methods regardless of format (in-person, online, blended, simulation, workplace environments) group size, or strategies used. This stream should also include addressing students with disabilities.
- Technology Enhanced Learning: Abstracts should emphasise the use of technology and its impact on teaching and learning. Topics may include social media, gamification, artificial intelligence, and other use of devices and approaches.
- Well-being: Abstracts should address topics related to staff and student physical, emotional, and social health and cultural safety with topics such as psychological safety, concerns about burnout will fit here. This steam can also address broader topics such as planetary/environmental health.
Abstract Submission Process
- Read Abstract Submission Guidelines below
- Download the template and follow the guidelines
- Click on the 'Submit Here' button to enter the presentation portal and create an author account
- Complete the online submission form and answer questions regarding your abstract
- Submit your abstract (must not exceed applicable word limit as per guidelines)
Abstract Submission Guidelines
- A title
- Whether the presentation is an Oral, Poster, PeArLS, or Pre-Conference Workshop
- The names and affiliations of all authors
- The nominated presenting author
- Upload abstract as a word document following the template as provided below
- Select the stream for your abstract
- Five key words to categorise the topic/field of the presentation
- Whether you would like your submission considered for an Award category
- Please note that in 2025, if you wish to submit an applicate for an Award, please indicate your intention. You will be contacted by ANZAHPE with further information about Award requirements.
ANZAHPE Awards
ANZAHPE invites submissions for the ANZAHPE Awards. Please refer to the ANZAHPE Awards page here for further information.
Download Abstract Template
Please download and use the template(s) below to prepare your submission:
- Submission Template - All submissions
- PeArLS Abstract Submission Template
- Pre-Conference Workshop Template
- Please note that in 2024 Symposium sessions will be by invitation only
REMINDER: All submissions require a 300-word abstract. PeArLS and Pre-Conference Workshops require a second abstract that contains the same 300-word abstract PLUS additional information (PeArLS require an additional 100-words to describe issues or questions for exploration. Pre-Conference Workshops require an additional 200-words to outline the workshop activities.)
For ALL presentation types, please upload a 300-word Abstract ONLY.
For authors looking to submit an abstract for PeArLS or Pre-Conference Workshop, a second abstract needs to be submitted in the presentation portal. This is requested in 'Section #2: Additional Information'. A template for PeArLS and Pre-Conference Workshop as below is required if you wish to be considered for a PeArLS or Pre-Conference Workshop.
Submit your Abstract
Click below to enter the ANZAHPE Presentation Portal .
Create an Account, complete the online form, upload your abstract and hit complete.
Review Process
Abstracts will be assessed by two reviewers for quality and also fit with the conference theme. The committee reserves the right to limit acceptance for an Oral, Poster, PeArLS or Pre-Conference Workshop to one abstract per presenting author or team, to support a varied and balanced programme. The abstract assessment criteria are:
- The abstract is clear and accessible to the intended audience
- The abstract communicates the significance/importance of an idea/issue
- The abstract is likely to add value to the intended audience or field of health professions education.
- The abstract is a scholarly account of an educational idea, innovation, practice, or research. If research then the study design and execution are reported
- The abstract is aligned with the chosen presentation format (e.g., PeArLS, Pre-Conference Workshop, Poster, or Oral) and includes the necessary elements.
Acceptance or otherwise is at the discretion of the Conference Program Committee. The contact author will be advised in writing of the Committee’s decision in April 2025.
Terms and Conditions
Submissions are accepted on the basis that all presenting authors must register and pay the appropriate conference fee. Co-presenters are allowed, but must register for the day of their presentation (as a minimum) if they wish to present.
Full paper publication
We encourage all presenters to submit their full papers for consideration for publication in Focus on Health Professional Education – Multi-Professional Journal (FoHPE). FoHPE is an open access peer reviewed journal published by ANZAHPE.