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University of Illinois College of Medicine Research Symposium

University of Illinois College of Medicine
2009 Research Symposium

What is a Clinical Vignette?

A clinical vignette is a short (five-minute) oral and visual presentation that contains one or more of the following elements:

An unusual presentation or manifestation of a disease
Characteristics of an unusual disease
A pitfall in the usual clinical problem-solving process
New information about a disease
Surprise because of an unusual characteristic of the case

The purpose of the presentation is to make one or two teaching points and drive those home. A 300-400 word abstract is required. A sample vignette abstract can be found here.

Once you have identified a case, review the literature, defend your thinking
and/or reinforce the importance of the case. You need to get final approval
from a faculty member, who will be the second author.

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