Specialties
Instruction courses are accepted in any one of the following specialties
- Cataract
- Cornea
- Glaucoma
- Lacrimal
- Neuro Ophthalmology
- Optics / Refraction / Contact Lens
- Orbit & Oculoplasty
- Paediatric Ophthalmology
- Refractive Surgery
- Trauma
- Uvea
- Vitreo Retinal Diseases
- Miscellaneous
General Guidelines :
Instruction courses dealing with clinical sciences should present current, but reasonably established information.
Highly controversial or unproven concepts may be more appropriately presented as papers or E- Posters.
Courses with formats utilizing innovative teaching styles are particularly encouraged. Interactive dialogues and panel discussions are educational methods that stimulate additional interest and promote learning
TIME
The total duration of session is 55 minutes. There will be a 5 minutes change over timebetween sessions. The chief instructors must ensure that the session finishes exactly ontime & does not spill over to the changeover time.
NUMBER OF SPEAKERS IN AN INSTRUCTION COURSE
- An instruction course shall have one chief instructor and up to a maximum of additional 5 CO INSTRUCTORS
- A chief instructor or a co-instructor can speak on more than one topic.
- A Chief instructor MUST be a ratified member of KSOS.
- As a Chief instructor, a ratified member can submit ONE INSTRUCTION COURSE ONLY.
One CAN PROVIDE consent ONLY FOR THREE ICs including your own
- GUEST FACULTY
- Chief instructor can include guest faculty from outside state or other specialties who need not be KSOS members.
- All Speakers must physically attend the conference and make podium presentation
- Travel and Accommodation and Registration for guest faculty has to be taken care of entirely by the chief instructor. KSOS will provide ONLY complimentary registration
- Abstracts shall be accepted online only. No abstracts shall be accepted as an email, fax, hard copies etc.,
- Non-ophthalmic co-instructors can be included (if relevant to IC’s) & they may be nonmembers of KSOS. If you want to include non-ophthalmic co-instructors with details of the course, name of the co-instructor, his/her address, valid email id and mobile number. Please write to ksoshelpdesk@gmail.com.
Abstract Structure
Course Title
The title of the course SHOULD NOT exceed 100 characters (including spaces).
Course Outline (Synopsis)
Instruction course synopsis SHOULD NOT exceed 1000 characters (including spaces).
Details of the Program:
Fill co-instructors names, topics and time allotted for each topic. These details SHOULD NOT to be mentioned in the Synopsis of the course. The topics SHOULD NOT exceed 100 characters (including spaces)
Chief Instructor’s resume (600 characters only)
Ensure the Chief Instructor’s resume, not exceeding 600 characters (including spaces), is prepared with care and is complete. Ensure that the name of Institution of the Instructors, place of work or positions held in AIOS or state bodies are not revealed. The resume should be so written as to not to reveal the identity of the chief instructor or of the Institution – These, If mentioned, may lead to Non-Consideration / Rejection of the Course.
- Chief instructor can include guest faculty from outside state or other specialties who need not be KSOS members.
- Travel and Accommodation and registration for guest faculty has to be taken care of entirely by the chief instructor. KSOS will provide ONLY complimentary registration.
- It is the duty of chief instructor to get the consent from Co instructors and guest faculty and make sure the co instructors have only consented for total of 2 other IC.
- It is the discretion of the co-instructor to choose the courses he/she wants to participate and each person can participate in maximum of 3 IC including his own.
- If the co-instructor does not consent or reject the course, it is the duty of the chief instructor to find an alternate co-instructor for the topic and ensure that the alternate coinstructor consents for the course.
- The chief-instructor is responsible to find an alternate co-instructor WITHIN 7 DAYS from the date of announcement of selected instruction course if the chosen coinstructor withdraws from the instruction course.
- It is advised that the co-instructor informs the chief instructor his/her inability to participate in the instruction course.
- Chief instructor should ensure that in the course have not more than 3 instructors including the chief instructor from the same institution.
- Despite the above measures, if the chief instructor does not find a co-instructor who consented, the scientific committee, at its discretion can remove the topic and replace it with an alternate topic and speaker.
- Limited number of panel discussions will be accepted.
- 1Instruction courses will be accepted based on the merit, freshness of concepts and benefit for attendees of conference.
- The scientific committee chairman might make some changes in the IC whenever required especially regarding guest faculty so that they can be utilized in multiple sessions
- Decision of KSOS scientific committee will be final.
- The scientific committee chairman has the full right to record and use the instruction course for KSOS for academic activities