Thieves' Market

The submission portal is now closed. Additional cases will no longer be accepted. 
PRS staff will contact you directly once judging has closed and acceptance has been confirmed.

The original Thieves’ Market was located off the Sungei Road in Singapore after WWII. There, contraband goods, which had previously been looted from the British Military or stolen from other places, were sold. People would go there with the hope of finding lost items. Similarly, Rheumatologists have been attending “Thieves’ Markets” at Rheumatology meetings for decades with the hope of finding lost diagnoses. The educational purpose of this learning style is to tease savvy rheumatologists with diagnostically challenging patient presentations. It seems to help us become more discerning diagnosticians (an important attribute of all rheumatologists) recognized by our peers in medicine.

The successful Thieves’ Market case will be:

• A well-rehearsed presentation of a patient with a rare disease, or
• A well-rehearsed presentation of a common disease with a rare presentation.
• The fellow will engage the audience in asking "what would you do next."
• The case must be a real case.
• One does not want to reveal too much information too early or it spoils the intellectual challenge.
• Case may consist of no more than ten (10) slides in PowerPoint format.
   

We encourage and invite all member fellows, residents, and medical students to submit their cases for the 2020 Pennsylvania Rheumatology Society Virtual Annual Meeting. A panel of physician judges will review all cases and select the top three submissions to be presented live during the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting. Ten other submissions will be selected to pre-record a presentation that will be posted to parheumatology.org along with the PowerPoint presentation. Case reports are acceptable as long as there is some aspect of clinical import (i.e. adds to our knowledge/understanding of a particular disease or disease management). 

Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 submissions: 1st Place will receive $500, 2nd Place will receive $300, and 3rd Place will receive $100.

PRS staff will contact you directly once judging has closed and acceptance has been confirmed. 

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