Scottish Society of Physicians 68th Annual Meeting

This event is in association with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

We are delighted to welcome you to attend this upcoming in person event in Inverness. The full programme for the event is available to view, bookings are now open and more information about the current call for abstracts can be found below.

Scientific & Quality Improvement Abstracts:

• Abstracts are invited for this meeting for poster or podium presentation. SSP welcomes work on any clinical, scientific or service topic from the breadth of general medicine and its subspecialties, as well as on topics such as patient safety, quality improvement and clinical audit.
• Abstracts will be scored and the top-scoring will be selected for oral presentation.
• We are looking for a 10 minute case presentation, 8 minutes for presentation of the case and 2 minutes for questions from the audience.   

Case presentations:

• Case presentations are invited for poster or podium presentation. SSP welcomes any case from General Medicine or its subspecialties that demonstrates clinical learning points that would be relevant and of interest to a general medicine audience.
• Abstracts will be scored and the top-scoring  will be selected for oral presentation.
• We are looking for a 10 minute case presentation, 8 minutes for presentation of the case and 2 minutes for questions from the audience.
• It is acceptable (with any permissions if relevant) to re-use case presentations that you may have done at grand rounds / meetings in your hospital in recent past. 

Prizes:

The best presenter of a scientific abstract will be awarded the prestigious Fitzgerald Peel Prize. There are also prizes available for the best case presentation, the best poster and best student poster.

General Information:

• The deadline for all submissions is 9am, Wednesday 13 May 2026
• For your submission, please follow the online link to submit your abstract: https://forms.office.com/e/e1gSfxrSTG
• The word count for an abstract is 300 words in total
• No figures, tables or images can be submitted to this form but they can be used in any presentation on the day.
• For case reports, ensure that you include an introduction, case summary, learning points, conclusions.
• For scientific abstracts, please include an introduction, patients and methods, results and conclusions.
• For QI abstracts please include introduction, patients and methods, results and conclusions.
• SSP will contact select and notify presenters of selection in June.
• This event is in person only and therefore accepted abstract authors will be invited to present in person at the venue. 

Scottish Society of Physicians (SSP) is grateful for sponsorship from the pharmaceutical companies listed through the purchase of exhibition stand space. Exhibitors/Sponsors have no influence and play no part in the planning or delivery of this event:

• Grunenthal
• Lilly
• Viatris