Giving Highly Effective

Presentations

Ryan Kraemer MD

Inspiration

Present Like a Pro: Tips on giving a killer

talk to any audience

Scott C. Litin

Opening Task

What presentations do you

give?

Goal of an Effective Lecture?

Memory

Promoting Retention

Goal of an Effective Lecture?

Forming Memories

Changing Thought Processes

Memory

Goal of an Effective Lecture?

Roadmap

Planning/Organizing to enhance memory

Powerpoint slide design

Delivery

Roadmap

Planning/Organizing to enhance memory

Powerpoint slide design

Delivery

Planning Your Talk

What do I hope to achieve?

What does the audience already know?

What are my 3 most important points?

How can I get them to remember those

points?

Opening? Closing?

Use Andragogy

Andragogy

Methods or techniques to teach adults

effectively

Andragogy

1. The Need to Know - Adults need

to know the reason for learning

something

Adults prioritize what they are going to

learn

Andragogy

2. “The adult learner learns most effectively if the new

learning is presented in the context of applications to

real life situations—that is task or problem centered

learning.”

Cases allow learners to process that they may be faced with

this scenario in the future

Cases make the knowledge seem practical

Andragogy

3. Adults are self-directing learners

4. Adult learners bring prior experiences and

prior knowledge

Andragogy

Hook Them Early

Tell them what you are going to accomplish

with your talk

Establish relevance

Show importance

Use Cases to Teach

Cases are problem centered learning

Start with a case … a great hook

Use cases to reinforce a concept

Use cases to check understanding

The more anecdotes the better

Ambrose S. How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print (pp. 57-58)

Advanced Organizers

Strategy to promote learning and retention

of material

AKI: prerenal, instrinsic, postrenal

Anemia: factory production of RBCs

HD: AEIOU

Ambrose S. How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print (p. 53)

Wiese J. Teaching in the Hospital. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010. Print (p. 18)

Teaching the Complex/Abstract

For complex, new, or abstract concepts

1. Concept

2. Example

3. Concept

Compare/Contrast

Syncope vs seizure

Gout vs pseudogout

Crohn’s vs ulcerative colitis

Ambrose S. How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart

Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print (p. 58-61)

Questions as Organizers

Bell’s Palsy

Who is Bell Anyway?

Case

How do I tell Bell’s Palsy from a Stroke?

What is the differential diagnosis?

Are labs or imaging helpful?

How do I treat it?

What’s the prognosis?

Adults Need Variety

Mills, H.R. (1977) Techniques of Technical Training, 3rd Ed. Macmillan, London

Examples of Variety

Cases

Videos

A personal story or anecdote

A demonstration

An audience task

Adults Need Variety

Take Home Messages

Have take home points (1-3)

Repeat them, repeat them, repeat them

Have an anecdote or story about each

Alabama ACP Meeting May 2013

Keys to success:

Talks were cased based

Utilized audience response system

Roadmap

Planning/Organizing

Powerpoint slide design

Delivery

Powerpoint Rules

Powerpoint Rules

One of the things that you should never do

it put a paragraph of text on the slide and

then read word for word from the text. The

audience will read in their heads faster

than you, but your talking will mess up

their reading. They will think, “Why is he

talking when I can just read this myself?”

Laser Pointer Rules

Not for use on TEXT slides

Speaker may only use on:

Graphs

Pictures

Diagrams

Powerpoint Rules

Use short bulleted phrases

Use them as memory prompts

Key words and phrases

Pictures or graphs

Powerpoint Rules

Title: 36-44 Font Text: 24-32 Font

White background

• Can be harsh on the eyes

Ahh… That’s Better

Highlight in yellow

Do not highlight in red or green on blue

Red is actually harder to see

Heudebert GR, et al. The 35mm slide-Is blue better? JGIM 1990;5:273.

Animation

Use “appear” to focus attention

Do not use:

spinning

Flying

Bouncing

They are just distracting

Use Images

Effects of Opioids on Pregnancy and Babies

• Opioid use during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of

adverse outcomes.

• Currently, pregnant women with opioid dependence are referred for

opioid-assisted therapy with methadone and even buprenorphine

• Medically supervised tapered doses of opioids during pregnancy

often result in relapse to former use.

• Abrupt discontinuation of opioids in an opioid-dependent pregnant

woman can result in preterm labor, fetal distress, or fetal demise.

• Patient stabilization with opioid-assisted therapy is compatible with

breastfeeding.

• Neonatal abstinence syndrome (withdrawal from substance used) is

expected and treatable

http://www.acog.org/Resources_And_Publications/Committee_Opinions/Committee_on_Health_Care_for_Underserved_

Women/Opioid_Abuse_Dependence_and_Addiction_in_Pregnancy

Opioids in Pregnancy

Increased risk of adverse outcomes.

But:

Opioid taper often = relapse to former use.

Abrupt discontinuation of opioids = preterm labor,

fetal distress, or fetal demise.

http://www.acog.org/Resources_And_Publications/Committee_Opinions/Committee_on_Health

_Care_for_Underserved_Women/Opioid_Abuse_Dependence_and_Addiction_in_Pregnancy

Opioids in Pregnancy

Refer for methadone or buprenorphine

Neonatal withdrawal is expected and treatable

Opioid-assisted therapy is compatible

with breastfeeding.

http://www.acog.org/Resources_And_Publications/Committee_Opinions/Committee_on_Health_Care_for_Underserved_Women/Op

ioid_Abuse_Dependence_and_Addiction_in_Pregnancy

Graphs and Charts

Charts

Charts

Or make new bigger chart

TACE

γ-secretase NRIF

NRIF

Gene transcription

APOPTOSIS

U

U

U

TRAF6

↑ROS

↑ROS

TACE

γ-secretase NRIF

NRIF

Gene transcription

APOPTOSIS

U

U

U

TRAF6

↑ROS

↑ROS

Complex Slides

Use to show complexity

Cut out & blow up the

important part

Animate in piece by piece

Roadmap

Planning/Organizing

Powerpoint slide design

Delivery

The Lovely Lavalier

Remove phone and pager from pocket

Don’t let clothes or hair touch microphone

Don’t ignore problems

It’s a Performance

Rules for speakers: Enthusiasm and Energy

Use “the pause” effectively

Make eye contact

Use humor

Hit “refresh” before printing!

What if I forget to hit Refresh?

WTF?

What if I forget to hit Refresh?

Talking Points

Have a script, but don’t read from it

Use a conversational tone, but not casual

conversation

Try not to talk too fast

Practice, practice, practice

Don’t run over time

Medical Grand Rounds

Summer 2014

Victor Montori, MD

Take Notes

Observe others giving talks and what

effective behaviors they have

Fear of public speaking?

Finish Strong

3 Things I want you to remember

In summary

Take Home Points

Take Home Points

Organization is the key to memory

Use Adult Learning Principles

Make PowerPoint work for you

Delivery is the key to success

References

Scott C Litin, MD and Jack Ende

The lecture: Tips to make your next

presentation go better than your last.

Questions?

Andragogy

Make sure slide advancers are in BR and

D

Ellen idea, email the person who did the

study to ask for their slide

Go over senior talk stuff with chiefs to get

their ideas