DEX25: Diagnostic Excellence 2025 Meeting
Monday, October 27 - Wednesday, October 29
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
About the Event
The Diagnostic Excellence 2025 Meeting (DEX25) will bring the diagnostic excellence community together to drive progress in science, education, and clinical reasoning. By convening a diverse and engaged group of clinicians, researchers, educators, patients, and innovators, this event’s goal is to promote advances and innovations, as well as identify future directions for the diagnostic excellence field.
This year's co-hosts are UCSF CODEX, the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Center for Diagnostic Excellence at the University of Michigan, and CIDM (Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine).
Stay tuned for details on registration, keynote speakers, award nominations, and more!
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Call for Abstracts and Workshop Submissions Now Open!
The DEX25 Planning Committee is pleased to invite workshop and abstract submissions for this year's meeting. See below for details about each opportunity.
Workshops
This is your opportunity to submit a workshop to showcase your work and support the development of the field by presenting interactive content that your peers can take back to their sites or implement into their own practice.
A workshop should encourage active, experiential learning and use a variety of activities. Opening background information in the form of a lecture (with or without slides) should take no more than 15 minutes.
Workshop Submission Requirements
- A minimum of two facilitators must be present, with a maximum of six. We encourage the inclusion of patient representatives and junior faculty and team members in the planning and presentation.
- Sessions will be 90 minutes long.
- Names, degrees, and institutions/affiliations will be printed as listed in this submission form.
- Facilitators may submit more than one proposal.
Workshop Rubric Criteria
The DEX25 Planning Committee will review workshop submissions based on the following criteria:
- Originality
- Methods
- Relevance
- Data
The deadline for workshop submissions is July 18 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.
View the workshop submission questions here.
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Abstracts
By submitting an abstract, you can share original research, applied innovations, and impactful interventions that illuminate both the challenges and solutions in the pursuit of diagnostic excellence. Papers will be selected for oral or poster presentations at the meeting.
Research abstracts should describe the outcomes of research projects in diagnostic excellence, including but not limited to clinical trials, retrospective studies, educational research, and others. Submissions must include qualitative and/or quantitative data.
Innovations abstracts should describe applied innovations in diagnostic safety, including clinical programs, quality improvement, advocacy, patient safety programs, educational innovations, and others. While data may be included, the focus of these submissions is the innovation being discussed.
Abstract Submission Requirements
- Abstracts must be 300 words or less and should adhere to the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion).
- At least one author must attend the conference to present their work.
- Names, degrees, institutions/affiliations, and abstract titles will be printed as listed in this submission form.
- Authors may submit more than one abstract.
Abstract Rubric Criteria
Abstracts will be graded by three peer reviewers on the following criteria:
- Originality
- Methods
- Relevance
- Data
The deadline for workshop submissions is August 18 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.
View the abstract submission questions here.
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DEX24
View information about last year's event here.