How to Give a Successful Presentation

1. How to Give a Successful Presentation Craig Alter, MD Susan Starr, MEd April 31, 2005

2. How to Give a Successful Presentation Pediatric Endocrine Review Course 2005 Craig Alter, MD Susan Starr, MEd June 1, 2005

3. What are features of good presentations? (or bad ones?)

4. Good Presentations • Consider: • The Content • The Methods • The Speaker

5. Organizing The Content

6. GNOME • Goals • Needs • Objectives • Methods • Evaluation

7. Goals • Ask the boss: • (What is the goal • of this talk?) GNOME

8. Needs • What does the audience need • to reach the goal? GNOME

9. Objectives The specific, measurable knowledge or skill that you want the learners to know by the end of your talk. GNOME

10. Update on Diabetes 2006 Pediatrics in Review Conference Mary Tyler Berry, M.D. Dick Vanderdyke University

11. Update on DiabetesObjectives • Discuss history of diabetes • Demonstrate Egyptian methods for diagnosing diabetes • Discuss the 5th amino acid of insulin • Discuss everything in the world that I know on diabetes … • What does that mean, “Leave time for questions?”

12. Update on DiabetesObjectives • Participants will be able to: • List new diagnostic criteria • Cite evidence that high BS is healthy • Use new implantable pumps

13. Objectives By the end of this session, participants will be able to: • 1) Organize a talk • Choose appropriate methods, including effective slide formats • Tailor the talk to the audience • Continue to improve your speaking

16. GNOME • Goals • Needs • Objectives • Methods • Evaluation

17. Methods: General Tips 1. Summarize/ reinforce main points • (GNOME) • Content, Methods, Speaker 2. Interactive or didactic?

18. Interactive How many of you order an MRI after you diagnose a child with GHD?

19. Methods: General Tips 1. Summarize/ reinforce main points 2. Interactive or didactic? 3. Use cases (with photos!)

20. Case of DI • 14 year old male w/polydipsia and polyuria • Duration of symptoms was 4 months • He had a 5 lb weight loss • He denied any headaches • There were no CNS concerns, such as seizures, loss of balance, etc • He had no nausea or vomiting, no lethargy, no constipation, no dry skin • His school performance remained excellent

21. Case of DI • 14 year old male with polydipsia/polyuria • 4 months duration • He denied headaches, nausea, or signs of thyroid disease

23. Methods: AV Tips 1. Video 2. Transparencies 3. Slides 4. Handouts

24. Methods/AV 1. Using Video Demonstrates: Interactions Teaching Procedures (Things that talk or move)

25. Methods/AV 2. Transparencies Real time ideas Less formal tone

26. Methods/AV 3. Slides

27. Slide Tips Focus the reader

28. Clark Kent • Can leap tall buildings with a single bound • Able to fly • Kryptonite is weakness • Lois Lane is other weakness

29. Clark Kent • Can leap tall buildings with a single bound • Able to fly • Kryptonite is weakness • Lois Lane is other weakness • How many read this already?

30. MRI Findings Seen in Fred Flintstone’s NEJM Study • Abnormalities ectopic posterior pituitary small pituitary hypoplastic stalk / thickened stalk craniopharyngioma (calcified) mass or large arachnoid cysts midline defects whole brain issues empty sella macroadenoma • Unclear significance: pineal cyst, change in pituitary curvature

31. Flintstone’s Findings • Abnormalities ectopic posterior pituitarysmall pituitary hypoplastic stalk / thickened stalk craniopharyngioma (calcified) mass or large arachnoid cysts midline defects whole brain issues empty sella macroadenoma • Unclear significance: pineal cyst, change in pituitary curvature

32. Is there a role for showing all of these structures???

33. Is there a role for showing all of these structures???

34. Slide Tips • WHAT DO YOU THINK? • #s vs bullets? • Not too many builds • Color (what and how many) • Vary types of slides

35. Flintstone Findings • 17 point font or larger for transparencies; • You don’t need to put long sentences to convey points or remind you of what to say • Key words only (40 pt font) • Key words only (48 pt) • Key words only(54 pt)

36. DKA

37. Including Documents ?

39. Ectopic Posterior Pituitary Hypoplastic Stalk

40. CHOP New Dx T2DM by Year 30 (Emphasis) 25 20 15 10 5 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

41. CHOP New Dx T2DM by Year 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

42. CHOP New Dx T2DM by Year 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

43. CHOP New Dx T2DM by Year 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

44. CHOP New Dx T2DM by Year 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

45. 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 Growth rate (cm/y) 5 4 3 2 1 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Age (y) Normal Growth Rates During Childhood Girls: solid lines Boys: dashed lines Boys: dashed lines Girls’ peak growth rate: 11.5 years Boys’ peak growth rate: 13.5 years Boys’ peak growth rate: 13.5 years National Center for Health Statistics. Tanner JM, et al. J Pediatr. 1985.

46. Emphasis Initial MRI 12/2000

48. Page 32 Figure 3b. Diagnosis of diabetes insipidus as a function of age Data are taken from lots of children and if you are reading this than you are obviously not paying attention to the speaker. Error bars represent true error and we apologize. Red Sox are the world champs.

49. Clarity:Diagnosis of DI Based on Age at Presentation

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