Very few people really love presenting and feel comfortable standing before a sea of faces. However, presentation and facilitation skills are required in most professional fields including health care. Faculty and preceptors need to present information clearly to convey important meaning and messages. These resources can help with presentation skill development and different ways of presenting like TED Talks and facilitating like team-based learning.
Just In Time
These Just In Time resources are ideal if you only have a couple of minutes to start finding out about Presentation & Facilitation Skills.
How to Start A Presentation
Source: Expert Academy – Expert English
How to start a presentation is just as important as how to end one. Your opening often determines how long the audience will “tune in” to your presentation. If you bore your audience right from the start, you’ve already lost them. Here’s a strong opening line to grab their attention from the very start.
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What are the first words of a speech? What should be the first sentence of a speech? How can you engage an audience from the first moment? Improve your speaking skills with this short lesson.
The Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. 2016 Sep/Oct. 19(5): 38-9.
Compare and contrast strategies for giving feedback on clinical presentations.
For more in this series, see: “Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin – Preceptor Development Series”
Deeper Dive
If you have more time to invest, these Deeper Dive resources are longer and/or more in depth so you can gain a deeper understanding of Presentation & Facilitation Skills.
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"Bueller... Bueller...": What Ferris Bueller's Teacher Can Show Us About Medical Education (video)
Bueller… Bueller…”: What Ferris Bueller’s Teacher Can Show Us About Medical Education
Identifies specific behaviors instructors can use to capture the attention of the audience and promote understanding; how to employ visual aids to capture attention and promote understanding; and how coaching can be of assistance to teachers.
Presenter(s): Jeremy Smith, MD
How to Present a Patient Case: The Signpost Method (video)
How to Present a Patient Case: The Signpost Method
Teaches the University of Calgary Signpost Method of case presentation. This is a simple way for junior clinical learners to present patient cases to their supervisor, while both ensuring their preceptors understand the extent of their clinical thinking AND being able to adapt on the fly to different preceptor preferences of style.
Liberating Structures (link)
Five conventional structures guide the way we organize routine interactions and how groups work together: presentations, managed discussions, open discussions, status reports and brainstorm sessions. Add 33 more ‘Liberating Structures’ to your repertoire.
Team Based Learning: The Sydney Medical School Approach at The University of Sydney (video)
Team Based Learning: The Sydney Medical School Approach at The University of Sydney
This short video describes the team based learning facilitation method.
Twelve Tips for Facilitating Team-Based Learning (link)
Twelve Tips for Facilitating Team-Based Learning
Medical Teacher. 2015. 37(9): 819-24.
Outlines 12 tips for Team Based Learning (TBL) facilitation designed to assist faculty to achieve an effective and engaging TBL learning environment.
Using Ted Talk-Style Presentations for Health Care Professional Education – Clinical Affiliate Online Journal Club (link)
Using Ted Talk-Style Presentations for Health Care Professional Education–
Clinical Affiliate Online Journal Club
Learn more about how these micro-presentations showcase well-formed ideas, or new or surprising ideas, or they challenge a belief, presenting a new argument within the context of an established issue.
Presenter(s): Marianna Shershneva, MD
See also: “UW Educator Workshop Series: Using TED-Style Talks“