British Division of the International Academy of Pathology

Material for the BDIAP Website

http://www.bdiap.org

The BDIAP is grateful for your help in giving a presentation at one of our Scientific Meetings.

Council of the British Division has agreed that, wherever possible, a summary of such presentations should be made available on the BDIAP Website. I would therefore be grateful if you would let me have something suitable, preferably in electronic form.

There is no prescribed format or length for this summary, but a full transcript is certainly not expected. The main aim is to permit pathologists who attended the session to obtain a summary in convenient form. For example, members often comment that months later they encounter a case which resembles an entity they recall being described at a meeting, but they do not have enough notes to confirm the relevance of that memory. Hence bullet point lists (for example, of diagnostic features) and lists of references are likely to be particularly useful.

Please do NOT supply material for which someone else holds the copyright, e.g. material published in scientific journals.

A small number of images can be included if you wish, but as images take up much more space than text no more than 2 images per presentation can be accepted unless there is a pressing justification.

Several formats are acceptable for the text. In order of preference:

1. A html file, Emailed to me at the address below
2. A word processor document, preferably MS Word, Emailed to me as an attachment
3. Either of the above on a floppy disk, posted to me
4. Simply Email the whole text.

Other file types (such as Powerpoint or Adobe PDF files) can be put on the Web, but please remember that some users will want to download them over slow internet connections. Downloading text or ('jpeg' images) is much more efficient. If you provide Powerpoint or PDF files, please check that your files are small. DO NOT provide text as an image file!

I really do not have the facilities to re-type text from pieces of paper.

My order of preference for images is:

• A file, preferably jpeg format, Emailed as an attachment
• A file, preferably jpeg format, on a floppy disk through the post
• A projection transparency (please state if you need it returned).

I am very reluctant to take images from microscope slides, as it's a lot of work and II would probably select the wrong area!

Many thanks.

Dr Stephen Wells, Divisional Editor and Webmaster, BDIAP

Email:stephen.wells@rbh.nhs.uk

Department of Histopathology, Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0JR, UK