Anaesthetists Handbook - MEDICAL EDUCATION at University ...

Presenting at seminarsDOYou must:• Prepare a seminar with aconclusion that will interestthe audience. Decide on themessage you want to getover, or the question onwhich you want discussionto focus. Demonstrate acritical faculty.• Prepare PowerPoint visualaids.• Use them as an aid to yourtalk, as an illustration andsummary of the things thatyou talk about.• Bring your presentation ona medium the PC willaccept. The network PCs inthe CSB will accept USBpen drives, floppy disks andCD-ROMs. (You can readfrom USB memory sticksbut not write to them.)• Stand to face the audiencewhen giving your talk. Itmakes you much moreaudible.DON’TYou must not:• Turn up late.• Exceed 15 minutes talkingtime (or agreed time).• Project slides and just readthem out. This is the mostcommon major problem.• Talk while facing theprojection screen.• Use tiny font sizes. Projectthe show on a PC screen.Hold a standard pen atarm’s length and movebackwards until the penappears longer than thescreen is wide. If youcannot read the type easilyat a glance, the audiencecan’t either.• Present the entire allocatedpaper without criticalediting.88 Anaesthetists Handbook January 2010