These are Carlos Garcia's slides for the final project. They are on giving a presentation: rules.

1. IV. How to improve your lectures and presentations Carlos Garcia, MD

4. Group exercise Please work in pairs to answer the following question. You will have 2 minutes.

5. Can you list 3 reasons to give a lecture?

7. The bad lecture

11. The good lecture

13. Guidelines for lecture presentations

24. Questions or comments?

25. Characteristics of good slides

27. Color schemes

28. Basic options Light background Dark text Dark background Light text

30. Black text Blue text Yellow text Green text Light blue text Red text Very light blue text Light pink text

32. Font style and size

34. Headings and subheadings 36 Headings and subheadings 32 Headings and subheadings 28 Headings and subheadings 24

42. Content and organization

46. Avoid too many bullets and too many words per line

50. Standard abreviations are useful and appropriate

52. Non-standard abbreviations are not appropriate

54. Please work in pairs and make 3 suggestions to improve the following slide (2 min)

56. Things to avoid in your presentation

58. The oral presentation

61. Start with memorized opening lines and posing a question or dilemma that lead to your presentation

65. Instead, make 2 simpler slides

69. How to end your lecture

71. Questions or comments?