SOFCOT – 100ème Congrès de la Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique & Traumatologique
Presentation formats
Regardless of the format in which an abstract is accepted, the person designated as the speaker must be registered in order to present and maintain the presentation in the programme.
Oral Presentation
Abstracts accepted as Oral Presentations will be included either in one of the SOFCOT programme sessions or in the Specialities Day programme.
The standard presentation time is 5 minutes + 2 minutes for discussion. Some sessions may offer adjustments, and we will inform speakers of the format of their session.
ePosters
- It must contain a maximum of 10 slides: the first slide must include the title, authors and geographical origin of the team. The last slide must list the main bibliographical references.
- No videos may be included in the e-poster.
- No animations or transitions may be included in the slideshow.
Nicolas Andry Circle
If you would like to present a paper to the Cercle Nicolas Andry, please send your request directly to: frederic.dubrana@chu-brest.fr
Rules for the call for papers
All submissions will be registered for the SOFCOT conference.
The selected papers will then be distributed among the various presentation sessions of the SOFCOT conference and the sessions of the various speciality programmes.
This distribution will be carried out by SOFCOT and the speciality societies.
By submitting an abstract in response to this call for papers, you certify that you have read and understood the following:
- Any work that has already been printed or presented in a previous year to an associated or partner company may not be presented at the conference.
- Communications from French teams must include at least one SOFCOT member who is up to date with their membership fees among the authors.
- Communications presented by manufacturers must include at least one orthopaedic surgeon among the authors.
- Any oral presentation not given by the main author (or one of their co-authors) will result in the exclusion of those concerned for the following two years.
- Presentations must not contain any slides expressing political views. All co-authors are required to declare their conflict of interests.
- A declaration of the use of artificial intelligence is also mandatory for each abstract.
- You may submit as many papers as you wish, but a maximum of three papers per department and per theme will be accepted.
- All co-authors must agree with the submitted abstract.
- Case reports are not permitted and will be automatically rejected.
Languages
The submission platform is available in French and English.
The presentation, as well as the PowerPoint presentation, may be in French or English.
Writing your abstract
The text of the abstract must not exceed 3,000 characters (including spaces) and must not contain any tables or figures.
It must report the results of clinical or experimental research and be presented according to the following plan:
- Introduction specifying 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.
Operating methods, measurement methods, clinical and experimental evaluation methods, etc. - Results reported without comment or discussion.
- Discussion focusing on the response to the objective of the work, the methodology used, and the position of the information provided in relation to previously published work.
- Conclusion for any prospective deductions and the clinical implications of experimental research.
- Additional mandatory field: disclosure of conflicts of interest for all authors.
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 should never be entered in all capital letters.
Anonymity
As the selection of papers is anonymous, the title and text of the abstract must not contain any information that could identify the origin of the work. Identification of the department will result in a score of 0 and therefore exclusion of the abstract.
Any failure to comply with these rules will prevent the Reading Committee from scoring and therefore selecting the submitted work.
Initially, the abstract will be saved as a ‘Draft’. The submitter must finalise their submission in ‘Submitted’ format for the text to be considered.
Once your abstract has been saved on the platform, the submitter will receive a confirmation of receipt.
After saving, the submitter is solely responsible for checking the format and content of the abstract. It is their responsibility to make any necessary changes and corrections if the copied and pasted text is not in a compatible format (fancy fonts, unrecognised special characters, etc.).
The submitter may modify their abstract until the submission deadline.
Congress Awards
To be eligible for an award: the paper must be accepted for the conference and presented by an author under the age of 35.
The winners will be chosen by a jury based on the PowerPoint presentation of the abstract, which must be sent to the Society’s Secretariat (sofcot@sofcot.fr) before 11 September 2026.
Please note that any applications that do not meet the criteria will not be considered.
SOFCOT Award for Best Paper: €2,000
This award recognises the best paper presented by an author under the age of 35.
RELYENS Prize for Risk Management in Orthopaedics: €2,500
This prize rewards the best paper on risk management in orthopaedics.
Only papers that actually deal with risk management will be considered.
Frantz Langlais Innovation and Research Award: €2,000
This award is given to the author of a piece of fundamental (preferably) or clinical research, by a French author under the age of 35.
Only papers that genuinely deal with innovation and research will be considered.