We are happy to share the announcement for the next round of the AEPC Young Community Clinical Case Competition in collaboration with EHJ Case Reports.
The aim of this competition is to promote education through real clinical cases and to encourage participation and collaboration among young cardiologists across Europe.
All AEPC junior members who will still be junior members in 2027 are eligible to take part, regardless of when they joined.
From 2 November, cases can be submitted via email to the AEPC Office at office@aepc.org.
Each clinical case must follow the official format and submission guidelines of EHJ Case Reports, which can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ehjcr/pages/general_instructions
Case submission format:
Word count: up to 1,200 words (not including the structured abstract or references),
Figures/Tables: a maximum of five figures or tables,
References: up to 15 references,
Authorship: no more than five authors may be included.:
Note: When taking part in this competition, your case should not yet be submitted to any (other) Journal for publication.
Authorship: the first author must be the person who submitted the clinical case. The remaining authors should be those from the team involved, chosen in agreement with the first author, together with the senior author who supported the case preparation.
All submitted cases will be evaluated by an expert jury, which will pre-select the five best cases. These 5 finalists will present their work during a dedicated AEPC webinar, where three winning cases will be chosen. The winners will receive the opportunity for free publication in EHJ Case Reports (subject to the journal’s peer review process).
Prof. Philipp Sommer, Editor-in-Chief, EHJ Case Reports
Dr Silvia Krupičková, EHJ Case Reports Editorial Board Member and AEPC member
Dr Ruth Heying, AEPC Secretary General & Educational Committee member
Dr Colin McMahon, AEPC Treasurer and Educational Committee member
Prof Ina Michel-Behnke, Educational Committee member
We look forward to receiving your applications!
AEPC Clinical Case Competition 2026 winnersFor the first edition of the AEPC Young Community Clinical Case Competition we received a total of 18 submissions. All submitted case reports were of high quality, therefore the review process was not easy!
Our jury reviewed all submissions and 5 candidates were pre-selected to take part in the live finale on Wednesday 22 April 17:00-18:30 CEST:
The jury finally selected Maria Teresa Quarta, Andrea Greco & Jacob Gilchrist as the winners to publish their case in EHJ Case reports. The other 2 finalists, Manuela Lopes & Roberta di Cosola, were awarded with free publication of their case in Cardiology in the Young.
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