Abstract: Each year far more abstracts are submitted and limited slots are available for oral and poster presentation.Hence, we have carried out an appraisal of abstracts published in the souvenir of the National Conference of IAPSM held at Nagpur during January 2013• These abstracts are reviewed by two independent reviewers as per the guidelines provided by Indian journal of community Medicine (IJCM). Out of 555 abstracts; 374 were accepted (67.38% overall acceptance rate). Maternal and child health papers formed the greatest proportion of total accepted 82(21.93%), followed by non communicable and miscellaneous group; 53 (14.17%) and 50 (13.73%) respectively. Mean (SD) score of accepted abstract by one reviewer was 13.23 (1.74) with 95% confidence interval (CI) (13.05-13.4).