Oral Presentations

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Oral Presentations

• Dr. Victorinos
• Prescription for Success

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Slides K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple Stupid)
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Slides

• Color Schemes
• K.I.S.S.
• Plain dark blue background
• Text in white, yellow
• Light blue, orange
• DO NOT USE
• Red, green

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Slides

• Plain dark blue background
• (Do not use this background)

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Fancy backgrounds are distracting

• Blue is easiest on the eye

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Slides

• Font
• Times, Arial, Helvetica
• Titles 44, text 32, 28 minimum
• Bold and shadow all text

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Cardioprotection of Beta Antagonism

• Slows the heart
• HR correlates with MI
• HR increase infarction size
• Cell death
• Mechanical unloading
• Platelet aggregation
• Anti-arrhythmic effects
• Bioenergetics
• Myocardial Infarction
• Beta-1 Receptor
• Beta-2 Receptor

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That was too busy!

• Too many bullets
• Break them up among multiple slides

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Slides

• Maximum
• 5
• bullets
• per
• slide

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Methods

• This was a Prospective Randomized trial of 128
  hypertensive patients that were to undergo
  elective surgery that were given a single oral
  beta blocker with their pre-operative medications
  by the anesthesiologists and were stratified
  based on pre-operative blood pressure
  measurements into normotensive and hypertensive
  groups with hypertension defined as SBP 160-200
  mmHg or DBP 90-100 mmHg.

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Too much text!
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Slides

• One line per bullet
• Maximum 5 bullets per slide

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Could you see any of that diagram?NO!
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Slides
NEVER, EVER, EVER !!! This slide is a little
busy You may not be able to see this
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References
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References

• No busy reference slide at the end
• Instead, show the reference during talk

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Mangano, NEJM, 1996
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Slides
Keep
It
Simple
Trauma
Trauma
Trauma
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Too complicated!

• Avoid tricks and gimmicks with fonts
• Keep focus on your topic

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Slides
A good rule of thumb is One slide per minute
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Slides
USE SPILL CHECQ !
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Preparation

• Practice
• Practice
• Practice

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Dress

• Make sure audience notices your presentation, not
  your appearance
• Dress conventionally
• NO SCRUBS
• A white coat is not acceptable when giving Grand
  Rounds

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Time !

• Show up early
• Make sure your presentation works
• DO NOT GO OVER TIME
• 10 minutes for Pre-Grand Rounds

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Presenting

• Face your audience
• Make eye contact
• Especially with senior faculty
• Do not turn your back to read from slides

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Presenting

• Memorize
• vs
• Cue Cards
• vs
• Read from script

Never read verbatim from slides !
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Presenting

• Be aware of your mannerisms
• Nervous feet
• Arm flapping
• Jingling keys
• Bouncing laser pointer

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Presenting

• Nervousness
• Nervous feet
• Arm flapping
• Jingling keys
• Bouncing laser pointer
• Dry mouth

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Presenting

• Nervousness
• Preparation
• Practice

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Time !

• Remember !
• DO NOT GO OVER TIME
• 10 minutes for Pre-Grand Rounds

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Preparation andPractice