Abstract

Tender opening :
February 3, 2025
Abstract submission deadline :
March 17, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
Confirmation of abstract acceptance :
end of June
Registration at preferential rate :
up to and including September 4

Online program :
end of June (on the website)
FORMAT 2025 :
Monday to Wednesday
Orthoriq subspecialty theme days
Wednesday afternoons

Submission on the platform

All submissions are for the SOFCOT congress. SOFCOT and the specialty societies will be responsible for allocating the selected papers to the various communication sessions to be held during SOFCOT and the specialty day.

• Any work printed or presented in a previous year to an associated or partner company may not be presented at the congress.
• Papers from French teams must include at least one paid-up SOFCOT member among the authors.
• Papers submitted by industry must include at least one orthopaedic surgeon as an author.
• Any oral presentation (or e-poster) not made by the principal author (or one of his or her co-authors) will result, for the following two years, in the exclusion of the participants.
• Presentations must not contain any slides expressing a political point of view ∙ Declaration of links of interest is compulsory for each co-author
• A declaration of the use of artificial intelligence is also mandatory for each summary.

If you wish to present a paper to the Cercle Nicolas Andry, please write directly to frederic.dubrana@chu-brest.fr

Please read the excerpt from the rules below carefully before submitting your application :

Please note: You can submit as many papers as you like, but a maximum of 3 papers per department and per theme will be accepted.

Instructions for
writing
the abstract

Important: once again this year, the submission platform will also be available in English: this option is reserved for international submitters only and must not be used by French teams.

The text of the abstract should not exceed 3,000 characters (including spaces) and should not include tables or figures. It should be presented in single-spaced text. Your abstract must be in French (except for international surgeons who may submit an abstract in English, speaking in English but with a PowerPoint written in French).

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It must report the results of clinical or experimental research and be presented according to the following plan:

An introduction setting out the established facts on the subject and, above all, the objective of your work.

Clinical or experimental material and methods, describing the population or sample studied.

Methods of operation, measurement, clinical and experimental evaluation, etc...

Results reported without comment or discussion.

Discussion of the response to the objective of the work, the methodology used, the position of the information provided in relation to previously published work.

Conclusion for possible prospective inferences and clinical implications of experimental research.

Unauthorized case reports

Any failure to comply with these rules will prevent the Reading Committee from marking and therefore retaining the work submitted.

Instructions for abstract
submission :

Abstract title: Never use all capital letters. Only capital letters required by international standards are accepted (acronyms, abbreviations, etc.).

Abstract author(s): First and last names, never capitalized

As the selection of papers is anonymous, the title and text of the abstract must not contain any indication of the origin of the work. Identification of the department will result in a score of 0 and exclusion from the abstract. All co-authors must agree with the submitted abstract.

Any failure to comply with these rules will prevent the Reading Committee from marking and therefore retaining the work submitted..

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CONGRESS PRIZES awarded to the best work presented by an author under 35 years of age

(*) To enter a prize: Paper accepted for the congress and presented by an author under 35 years of age. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges on the basis of the PowerPoint presentation of the abstract, which must reach the Society's Secretariat (sofcot@sofcot.fr) by September 11.

Please note that applications that do not meet the criteria will not be considered.

SOFCOT award for best communication (*) :
2 000 €
This prize rewards the best communication.

RELYENS orthopedic risk management award (*) :
2 500€
Paper accepted for the congress and presented by an orthopaedic surgeon under 40 years of age. Winner chosen from among the best papers dealing with risk management in orthopedics. Prize worth 2,500€

Frantz Langlais Innovation and Research Award (*) :
2000 €

Prize awarded by FICOT (Foundation for Innovation in Orthopaedics and Traumatology)
This prize is awarded to the author of a work of fundamental or clinical research by a French author under 35 years of age.