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Student Final Presentation Requirements

The purpose of doing this project is to give the student practice in researching and answering a casebased, drug-related question, as well as creating and giving a professional-level, oral presentation. It is
our hope that students might be able to use the presentation itself for any interview that may have a
presentation requirement, and certainly utilize the skills gained as a useful tool to build upon in the
future.
Technical Requirements:
Presentation must be no more than 30 minutes long
o In Power Point, plan for 1 slide per minute, thus no longer than 30 slides
One slide must include objectives for the audience
o No more than 4 objectives (your talk is only 30 minutes)
o Use measurable objectives
Slides may contain no more than 12 lines per slide, minimum 18-point font or larger:
o Make sure slides are appropriately spaced: There should not be large blank spaces on a
slide, nor should it be so cramped that there are any text/figures running off the slide
o Arial and Calibri font styles are suggested
o Try looking at your slides from the point of view of your audience: Is there too much to read
on one slide? Remember you can talk about details in your presentation, so leave them off
the slides. Would some word art break up the monotony of looking at slide after slide of text?
Feel free to get creative!
Copy-and-pasting tables, charts, etc from published documents into a slide is stylistically messy
and unprofessional-looking. Feel free to create charts/tables/diagrams/etc using the appropriate
tools in the program you are using.
Each slide should contain the reference of any sourced information on the bottom right corner of the
slide. References should be formatted as: Abbreviated Journal Title Year;volume:page numbers.
The author and title of the article can be omitted. Ex: NEJM 2014;2(1):1234-5. There should be a
full references slide at the end of the presentation.
It is expected that the student be able to give the presentation from memory, without reading off the
slides or notes, with the exception of cues. This can easily be accomplished by repeated practicing
of the final presentation, to be done on the students own time.