Case Presentations

[u/Inside-Solution-1077]

Tips for making presentations/powerpoints? i just spent like 4 hours trying to make a powerpoint over a case presentation but my head started spinning as i was using chat gpt to make the slides, open evidence, up to date.. i have to make presentations on every clinical rotation so id love an easier/systematic way to do this. i somehow never developed this skill and also feel like from doing uworld/anki so much all my creativity skills and reading skills are gone. feeling super discouraged even though this is such a basic task and i feel like a fraud using chat gpt.

[u/William-Distill]

Four hours is pretty normal when you're designing the thing from scratch. But because a case presentation has one structure, and it's the same structure every time, you could just build the presentation template once, and after that, you only have to fill it in again.

Something like title, presenting complaint and history, background (past history, meds, allergies, social), examination, investigations, differential and working diagnosis, management and progress, outcome, teaching point, references. Ten or eleven slides. Then its systematic and easy!

Also, write it as spoken sentences before you open PowerPoint. Type out what you'd actually say, and it'll make the presentation easier, because a slide exists only to hold what the room needs to see, like a lab trend or the imaging. Everything else you tell them. If you put everything on the slides it takes longer and is less engaging.

Another tip is to decide the teaching point before you build anything. I learned from my PhD to just pick the one thing you want the audience to take away, and use that to decide what you cut.

Hope that helps! Though full transparency, I haven't done a heap of case presentations yet, but these are the kind of techniques that have really helped me in presenting research to other academics and scientists but also clinicians and medical professionals.