Appeal to an audience, present information from your hard working career as a student or professional so your reputation is a competitive advantage. Engaging presentations require clear content, pitch, pacing and focus. Adhering to presentation guidelines enables efficient and effective reporting for opportunities to interchange ideas and information.
Guidelines vary in different sectors and related fields with potential grant funders and the community. The American Psychological Association (APA) style and International guidelines offer recommendations to narrow scope and strategy.
Medical Presentations can promote originality by proofreading to assist with technical improvements of your work.
Whether you are needing help in translational or evidence-based healthcare research, we can competently achieve adherence to guidelines for submissions.
We understand the importance of industry preference. Presentations can require adherence to different guidelines and legal standards in academic, scientific and business endeavours.
We provide support by knowing the industry standards to communicate our approach to formatting with the "Steps of Presentation Making" and "Stages in Presentation Building."
Medical Presentations has competitive advantage.
Developing credible, authoritative and reliable presentations.
Support for Making a Professional Presentation
Ethical and Legal Standards
To operate fairly and competitively we focus on providing high standard presentation of work without statements of false or misleading claims.
There are 3 main elements requiring diligence to ensure adherence to legal requirements:
- content
- visual images and data
- references and citations.
Content Summary of Completed Work
With our work we offer a section of rationale in the following areas:
- types of journal articles used
- marketing attributes
- ethical reporting
- honest reporting of statistics and observations.
Respectful Representation With Visual Images and Data
We provide research services and correct documentation of:
- images requiring authorisation
- quality resolution of images
- adapted work in tables, charts or graphs
- identification of work in images
- referencing.
About the Slides
Title Page
Include the same information as on an American Psychological Association (APA) style paper with Good Practice for Conference Abstracts and Presentation (GPCAP) such as:
- Title is same as abstract
- Study identifiers (trial registration number)
- Listing of authors on slides is the same as that on the abstract
- Presenting author/s with main speaker first (qualification title/s optional)
- Presenting author acknowledged in written formatting (name, photo, qualification title, institutional affiliation and work role)
Slide Deck
All slides are adjusted to adhere to scientific, business and good practice guidelines.
For a 20-25 minute presentation, approximately 10 slides is adequate.
Presenter slide
Hypothesis slide
Research plan slides
Concluding slide
Disclosure slide/s (presenter disclosure and financial interests/commercial support disclosure)
Affiliate and Partner slide
Funding Source slide
Subsequent Slides
Format that is appropriate in healthcare presentations include:
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clear fonts
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headings or subtitles (36 to 32 font size)
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body text (18 to 28 font size)
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aim for 5-6 lines of text per slide
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personal pronouns and active voice use
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sentence fragments
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figure (image). Explanatory caption describing the image (include citation)
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hyperlink images to original source (easy to read colour).
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use of graphs (rather than tables)
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allocation of entire slide for specific and important messages, quotes, diagrams/charts and images
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each slide complements 1-2 minutes of talking.
Specifications Aspects of Publication
Author identification of contribution to the study, research and to the development of the presentation.
Any discrepancy in conclusive research findings in the time between abstract submission and presentation.
Writing Resources
Australian Guide to Legal Citation
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.)
Australian Clinical Trials Handbook
Australian Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990
Australian Regulatory Guidelines for Medical Devices
Australian Goods Advertising Compliance 2019-2020
International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice
National Statement on Ethical Code in Human Research 2018
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory Procedures Manual
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0