Pediatric Fellows’ Day Case Submission

1. Pediatric Fellows’ Day Case Submission General guidelines and slide template **This slide deck must be used for submission**

2. What makes a good case? • Interesting differential diagnosis • Diagnostic or treatment dilemma • Well organized case presentation and submission • Likely to generate good discussion • Cases with excellent images are preferred

3. General Guidelines • Use PIDS template for submission • May duplicate or add slides as needed • Minimum 24 size font • Bullet points should not end with periods

4. General Guidelines • Less is more • 6-7 lines of text per slide • Use clear, precise and simple English • Remember time limit • 5 minutes for case presentation • 5 minutes for final diagnosis and teaching points

5. Bullet points are better than paragraphs “Lean text” (good) Ideal anesthetics – Quick sedation – Quick recovery – Few side effects – Safe to handle “Fat text” (bad) The ideal anesthetic should quickly make the patient unconscious but allow a quick return to consciousness, have few side effects, and be safe to handle.

6. Case Title This and following slides must be used for submission Add slides as needed & arrange order as appropriate for the case Do not include name or affiliation for submission

7. Case Presentation • Succinctly summarize the patient presentation • No patient identifiers

8. Patient History • Medical/surgical history • Family history • Epidemiologic history • Include pertinent positives and negatives • Avoid nonstandard abbreviations

9. Physical examination • Include vital signs and relevant physical exam findings • Normal findings can be spoken, but do not need to be included on the slide • Consider highlighting important findings in bold or red

10. Relevant Labs • Be sure to include units and reference range • Consider highlighting important findings in bold or red

11. Relevant Images • Relevant images can improve your submission • Physical findings • Radiologic imaging • Histopathology • Select images critically Consider including a legend to explain the image

12. Black background may work best for displaying radiologic images

13. Differential Diagnosis List 5 differential diagnoses in alphabetical order, including the correct one • Diagnoses should be plausible • Species names should be italicized • Avoid nonstandard abbreviations • * • *

14. Final Diagnosis • Reveal the diagnosis • Briefly discuss how the diagnosis was determined • Review the case management and outcome

15. Teaching Points • Highlight interesting teaching points • Presentation • Diagnosis • Management • Avoid excess jargon • Look closely for misspellings or grammatical errors • Add slides as necessary

16. References

17. Acknowledgments • For final presentations only. Do not include acknowledgements in submission.