The West Virginia Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, is sponsoring a resident research contest. Any physician enrolled in an approved Pediatric or Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Training Program in West Virginia is eligible to participate.

1. Research must be performed during residency, and not during protected research time during residency.
   (A month-long research elective during the course of a residency is fine)
    
2. Research can take many forms, including case reports and case series, retrospective analyses, clinical trials, and laboratory studies.
    
3. The resident should have participated in the project to legitimately claim first authorship when/if the manuscript is published.
    
4. An abstract of no more than 250 words should be submitted by January 31 for that year's contest. One copy of the abstract should include names and affiliations of the authors, and 3 additional copies should be submitted with names and affiliations removed (see examples).
    
5. Pediatricians from outside of West Virginia will review the abstracts. Some of the attributes that will be assessed are originality, importance of the topic to practicing pediatricians, and readability.
    
6. The authors of the top 3 abstracts will each give a 10-minute presentation at the annual Spring meeting of the West Virginia Chapter. First, Second and Third Place will be determined by the quality of presentations at the Spring Meeting. Plaques and monetary prizes ($300, $200, $100) will be awarded at the meeting.

Attendance at Noon Conference in a Pediatric Residency- Effect of Hot vs. Cold Food.
C Amador, M Weisse, J Whitten; Dept of Pediatrics, West Virginia Food Institute, Flatwoods , WV.
It is often difficult to coerce residents to attend noon conference (NC) at a rate acceptable to the RRC. The lure of food has been demonstrated anecdotally to increase resident attendance. We designed a study to evaluate the difference in attendance at NC comparing bologna sandwich

Attendance at Noon Conference in a Pediatric Residency- Effect of Hot vs. Cold Food.

It is often difficult to coerce residents to attend noon conference (NC) at a rate acceptable to the RRC. The lure of food has been demonstrated anecdotally to increase resident attendance. We designed a study to evaluate the difference in attendance at NC comparing bologna sandwich