Celebrating scholarship · presented on 20 February 2027
Call for entries
Two competitions, two separate forms. Students make AETCOM videos in teams. Students and faculty submit abstracts for oral papers and e-posters.
Call for entries · MBBS students and interns
AETCOM Video Competition
Make a short film that shows attitude, ethics and communication in action. One entry per team.
Choose one theme
Rules
- Team: 2 to 6 members including the team leader, all MBBS students or interns. A faculty mentor is optional.
- Length: to minutes.
- Language: English, Tamil, Hindi or another language.
- Cast: actors or standardised patients only. No real patients or records on screen.
- Consent: everyone on screen signs a consent and release form. The team leader keeps these and produces them on request.
- The video must be your original work and not entered in any other competition.
How to enter
- Name the video file in this format:
AETCOM2027_Theme<number>_M<module number>_<TeamName>.mp4
Example: AETCOM2027_Theme2_M1.4_HippocraticHeroes.mp4 - Upload it to Google Drive and set sharing to Anyone with the link → Viewer. Keep the link active until results are announced.
- The team leader fills in the entry form below with team details, the theme, the Drive link and a 100–150 word description.
Call for abstracts · Students and faculty
Scholarly Papers and e-Posters
Share your research, educational innovation or review as an oral paper or an e-poster. One form per abstract.
Award categories
Choose your presentation type: oral paper, e-poster, or either (the Scientific Committee decides). Types of work: original research, educational innovation or project report, systematic or narrative review, other.
Conference themes
Abstract format
Up to words in English. You type each part in its own box in the form:
| Part | Limit |
|---|---|
| Title | 20 words (150 characters) |
| Introduction / background | 400 characters |
| Objectives | 300 characters |
| Methods | 600 characters |
| Results (include key numbers) | 600 characters |
| Conclusion | 300 characters |
| Keywords | 3 to 5 |
- Blind review: don’t put author names or your institution in the title or abstract boxes.
- Up to co-authors, listed in authorship order.
- Optional: attach the abstract as a Word or PDF file (up to 10 MB).
- State your Institutional Ethics Committee approval (or exemption) and any conflict of interest or funding.
- Accepted e-posters are uploaded separately. Format and date come with the acceptance email.
Before you submit
- The presenting author must register for SRM ICME 2027 and present in person. The registration number can be added later, but is required before presenting.
- All authors must approve the abstract. Participant data must be anonymised.
- Accepted abstracts may be printed in the conference abstract book or souvenir.
- You can edit your response until the deadline. The Scientific Committee’s decision is final.
