PRESENTATION FORMS

• Workshop: 60 minutes. Workshops are interactive group sessions addressing topics relevant to general practice and family medicine. Introductory presentations should be kept brief – ideally 5–10 minutes – to maximise the time available for active participation and shared learning. Activities may include pair work, small-group exercises, practical skills training, audience discussion and electronic polling. Workshops may also explore similarities and differences between family doctors and healthcare systems in different countries.
• Country Session: 60 minutes. Country Sessions provide an opportunity to present and discuss national experiences, healthcare policies, innovations and challenges in family medicine and primary care. They should encourage interaction with the audience, the exchange of good practices and collaboration between countries.
• Controversy Session: 60 minutes. Controversy Sessions provide a structured and balanced debate on a topical or contested issue in family medicine or primary care. Presenters should represent different perspectives, critically examine the available evidence and involve the audience through discussion, voting or other interactive methods. The aim is to promote critical reflection and a better understanding of differing viewpoints rather than necessarily reaching consensus.
• Formats allowing one presenting author only. For all the formats below, only one author may be designated as the presenting author.
• Oral Presentation: 10 minutes, including discussion. Oral presentations are intended for original research, quality improvement projects, educational research or other scientific contributions relevant to family medicine and primary care. Abstracts will be evaluated based on their scientific quality, originality, methodological rigour and relevance to clinical practice.
• Short Lecture Presentation: 5 minutes, including discussion. Short Lecture Presentations provide a concise format for presenting original research, quality improvement projects, educational research or other scientific contributions relevant to family medicine and primary care. Abstracts will be evaluated based on their scientific quality, originality, methodological rigour and relevance to clinical practice.
• Practice Innovation Showcase: 10 minutes, including discussion. This format is dedicated to innovative solutions that have been successfully implemented in family medicine or primary care. Contributions may address clinical organisation, digital health, artificial intelligence, sustainability, patient engagement, quality improvement, interdisciplinary collaboration or other innovations. Formal research is not required; the emphasis is on practical implementation, lessons learned and potential transferability to other settings.
• Clinical Pearls: 10 minutes, including discussion. Clinical Pearls are concise presentations of practical clinical insights that have significantly influenced the presenter’s practice. They may arise from clinical experience, communication with patients, diagnostic reasoning, therapeutic decision-making or the management of uncertainty. The emphasis is on practical knowledge that colleagues can immediately apply in their own practice.
• ePoster Presentation. ePosters are submitted and displayed exclusively in digital format. Dedicated screens will be available at the conference venue; printed posters will not be displayed.
  Each ePoster must have one designated presenting author. The presenter’s name will be shown with the abstract in the conference app, allowing participants to contact the presenter during and after the conference. Only ePosters whose presenting author registered for the 31st WONCA Europe Conference 2027 will be displayed and included in the conference app.