CHEST 2025 Call for Topics

Tell us what you want to learn at CHEST 2025, October 19 – 22 in Chicago. Help shape the curriculum by submitting topic ideas from areas you’re passionate about, topics affecting your practice, or new technologies you’d like to learn more about, so CHEST 2025 will be a clinically relevant learning experience for you.

Submit a topic to:

• Collaborate with other experts in the field.
• Receive recognition and feedback from the CHEST community.
• Expand your professional portfolio.
• Be part of a dynamic learning tradition that has made the CHEST Annual Meeting a “must-attend” event since 1935.

Submission Deadline
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 2 PM CT

Submissions must include your topic idea and title, proposed speakers, and session format. To submit an outstanding proposal:

• Choose a session title that is both descriptive and straightforward.
• Describe your session in detail, taking into consideration descriptions will be used in promotional materials and the final program. Write an engaging description for your audience.
• Inform your designated Chair that they must present, not just introduce others on the panel. (As submitter, you do not have to be one of the speakers.) Ensure all speakers are aware of your submission, and remind them submission is not a guarantee of acceptance.
• Select a session format that best suits your topic proposal. See descriptions of session formats below.
• Review examples of well written submissions from previous years:
  Example 1

  Example 2

Submission Formats

Core Interactive Session
Propose a lecture-based format to encourage open dialogue between presenters and learners. Opportunities for questions and discussion are key to making interactive sessions relevant to attendees.

Panel Discussion
Have an idea for leading authorities to examine a topic that’s timely and relevant to chest medicine? Panel discussions are a perfect format for experts to share their clinical experiences.

GAMES - Games Augmenting Medical Education
Submit a proposal that uses gamification to convey key educational topics. Chairs and faculty for selected sessions will work with educational design staff throughout the summer prior to the meeting to create game content using selected templates.

Pro-Con Debate
Inspire your peers to consider different points of view by proposing a pro-con debate. Submit a controversial topic that matters to you for the chance to see your proposed faculty discuss it in a healthy debate.

Innovative Session Format
Do you have a great idea that doesn’t fit any of these session types? We want to hear it! Share your vision with us, and we’ll try to make it happen.

Pre-Meeting Courses

A Comprehensive full- or half-day educational session focused on decision-making and relevant clinical skills. Faculty for these sessions are specifically selected for their subject matter and educational expertise. Active learning methods may include case-based studies, problem-based learning, small group exercises, and interactive didactic lectures. Please refrain from submitting sessions that include simulation or hands-on demonstrations. Types of Pre-Meeting Courses:

• A Master Class is designed to advance the knowledge and skills of experienced attendees by providing deeper insight into complex topics through collaborative, in-depth learning facilitated by preeminent experts in the field
  
• A Postgraduate Course is designed to develop the foundational knowledge and skills of attendees through a comprehensive review of specific topics by experienced faculty.