Regardless of whether the Annual Meeting is conducted in-person or in a virtual format, for the 2021 meeting INSTITUTES will be conducted in a “flipped” format. A flipped format is an instructional method intended to promote active learner engagement, wherein the majority of didactic content is prerecorded and viewed in advance of a live session designed as a more interactive experience with course faculty.

Following this model, INSTITUTES will be divided into prerecorded lectures that will be available on-demand to attendees for a period before and after the Annual Meeting, and a scheduled live session with program faculty during the meeting week.

Submissions should describe approximately 5 hours of prerecorded content that can include up to 7 independent presentations of 35-50 minutes each. The live in-person component will be scheduled for 2 hour blocks to facilitate active real-time engagement with INSTITUTE faculty. Submissions should carefully describe how the live in-person time will be organized and emphasize ways in which the audience will be actively engaged, keeping in mind that there could be both an in-person and a virtual audience. The live component might include time for Q&A based on questions submitted by viewers of on-line content, as well as questions posed in real-time. Other possibilities could include panel discussions by INSTITUTE faculty, debates, audience polling, or other innovations to enhance active learning.  Submissions should clearly outline what is proposed.  

INSTITUTES differ from other program formats in several ways. First, participants purchase a ticket to attend INSTITUTES. Second, INSTITUTES focus on a review of a topic in addition to supplying new research information relevant to the topic. Thus, the INSTITUTES attract members who wish to be taught a comprehensive and expert overview of a topic area. INSTITUTES also focus on "how to do it" with respect to clinical problems, academic areas, or a blending of the two.

INSTITUTE chairs are required to submit notebooks with each lecturer's slides, talk outlines, annotated bibliographies, and multiple-choice self-assessment questions in late June 2021. Program faculty will need to be available to prerecord lectures in August or September prior to the October meeting. AACAP staff will provide training and technical support in recording these videos. Additional information and guidance will be provided if the INSTITUTE is accepted by the Program Committee. If any speaker for the INSTITUTE cannot submit materials by the end of July, it is the chair's responsibility to replace them.

It is the Program Committee’s expectation that a minimum of 100 attendees would purchase a ticket for an INSTITUTE, so the topic needs to be of wide interest.

The CME Committee will choose up to 3 INSTITUTES to participate in an outcomes measurement evaluation system, where a set of pre-test, post-test, and follow-up self-assessment questions will be required. More information will be provided if your INSTITUTE is selected.

The chair or a co-chair of an INSTITUTE must be an AACAP member. INSTITUTES are largely didactic in nature, use a maximum of 7 presenters (including the chair), and provide interaction/discussion between the presenters and participants for up to 900 fee-paying participants. Case examples are helpful. Submissions about clinical techniques should include a brief description of or reference to the scientific evidence for and limitations of the treatment technique.

AACAP supports expenses of up to 2 domestic non-member presenters. All accepted submissions must display full disclosure slides to the audience. 8-9 INSTITUTE spaces are available. 

Questions regarding INSTITUTES can be directed to the Program Committee’s INSTITUTE Subcommittee Chair, Peter Daniolos, MD at peter-daniolos@uiowa.edu. 

The following information is required:

• The title of the submission
• The chair’s organization and email address
• Educational Learning Objectives
• Presentation Schedule describing the order of presenters as well as time allotted per person for the pre-recorded didactic component.
• Well outlined proposal for how the live component will be organized.
• Overall Review Abstract for the INSTITUTE, describing the reasons why the individual components belong in the same INSTITUTE and providing a description of each person’s participation
• Overall Proceedings Abstract for the INSTITUTE
• Each co-presenter's, discussant's, and co-author’s name, organization, contact information, email address, disclosure of affiliations, and recording permission
• Individual Proceedings Abstracts for each presentation

Pending acceptance, the Chair will receive Guidelines for INSTITUTE Presenters and it is agreed that INSTITUTE chairs and presenters will follow these guidelines. The Chair should submit the INSTITUTE notebook formatted for publication in June 2021. All materials must be assembled by the INSTITUTE chair, and then reviewed and approved by our INSTITUTES Subcommittee.