About Medical Presentations
Medical presentations are fundamentally different from other presentation types. In fact, they are one of the toughest type of presentations to design.
Medical slides have research facts, data charts, diagrams and illustrations that demand a totally different approach to design. You need a slide creation method that considers the unique problems you face as a medical presenter. In this guide, you will Tips, Tutorials and resources to get your started with making over your Medical slides.
We will start with some general tips and tricks on creating medical slides and then proceed to step by step tutorials.
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Tips to Create Medical Presentations
How to Avoid Overwhelming Audience in Technical Presentations
Do you want to improve how you explain concepts in a technical presentation?
In this article, you will find a powerful technique called ‘Telescopic explanation’ to make your technical presentations much clearer and more memorable for your audience.
To know more, read this post over on PrezoTraining.com
Tips to present Scientific Information
There are two major facets to a presentation: the content and how you present it. Let’s face it, no matter how great the content, no one will get it if they stop paying attention.
Here are some pointers on how to create clear, concise content for scientific presentations – and how to deliver your message in a dynamic way. Find the tips over on Elsevier connect.
Preparing a Research Presentation
If you have never presented a paper at a scientific meeting, or would like to polish your research presentations, this post contains information that will improve your presentation.
This article contains a set of guides and checklists to help you in the preparation of your presentation. Read this post on ACP.
10 Tips for Medical Presentations
Whether you are presenting an audit or a case report at a local meeting, presenting a paper at a conference, presenting a business case to your Trust, or even presenting on a hot topic at your medical interview, you will need to know how to prepare medical slides which attract your audience rather than distract it.
This post on ISC Medical provides 10 tips for Medical presentations.
PowerPoint Tutorials for Medical Slides
In the following sections, you'll find step by step PowerPoint tutorials & Makeover Ideas to help you makeover different parts of your presentation.
How To Present Lists and Text
Information presentations use a lot of text and bullet list. In this section, you will find some creative ways to design these type of slides.
PowerPoint Tip: How to Present Long Lists on One Slide
If you have a Long Lists of items on One Slide here is a one-click trick on how to do this. Watch the video below to know more.
PowerPoint Trick to Convert Text to Graphics
Find a useful PowerPoint SmartArt Trick to convert Bullet Point Text to Graphics quickly and easily. Learn how to take the graphics to the next level with some creative ideas from Ramgopal.
How To Showcase Pictures Creatively
Medical presentations usually have a lot of pictures. Especially the training and informational slides. Here are some ways in which you can present the pictures in your presentations in a creative way.
Right Way to Showcase Pictures
Learn the benefit of showcasing pictures using SmartArt tool in PowerPoint. In the video below we start with a typical picture Showcase slide used by presenters. Though the slide looks quite attractive in the first glance, there are some issues that makes the slide ineffective. Watch the video below to know more:
Cropping Pictures in PowerPoint
Learn a super easy trick to crop a picture in PowerPoint in a step by step way. This trick will help you crop a picture in the shape you want, in a single click.
How to Use Animations Effectively
A PowerPoint slide with too much content can be overwhelming for the audience.
If you learn to sequence the way you present your information, you make it easy for your audience to understand your presentation.
Here are different ways you can use Custom Animations and Morph Transition effects to sequence information.
Animation for Process with Pictures
In this tutorial, you will find how to create a useful and practical slide with pictures and text to show a process or a timeline diagram. Learn how to create and present it to make an impact.
Animation for Highlighting Pictures
Learn to create an Animated Picture Reveal Effect in PowerPoint. Present your important picture with this effect. Watch the video to preview the effect and learn how to create it:
Sequential Fading technique in PowerPoint
This trick is super useful for medical presentations where you need to present an image step by step. Since it is an image you cannot break it up and present it in parts. However with this useful technique you can highlight one part of an image at a time with animation.
Creative Morph Transition Ideas
In PowerPoint for Office 365, Microsoft introduced the Morph Transition. It is an effective way to create animations fast. Here are some ideas on how you can use this feature to create your slides.
Pros & Cons with Morph Transition
Learn how to create an easy animated scales diagram with Morph Transition Effect. This effect is available in PowerPoint for Office 365. You can also sign up & download the original PowerPoint file over at our website.
Morph Transition To Present Pictures
In this video you will find how to use PowerPoint Morph Transition to replace Custom Animations. See how this can be done with this example of a slide with multiple pictures with text.
Making Medical Slides Easy to Understand
Convert your boring text-based slides, blog articles or research papers into clear & beautiful visual slides - even if you have zero Design skills, zero PowerPoint skills & very little time - using our ‘4-step Neuro Slide Design System for Medical Presentations’
Watch the video below to learn more:
Ideas to Present Data
Medical presentations also usually contain a component of data. This could be related to statistics or research. In this section, you will find some easy ways to makeover your slides with numbers.
Creating Pie & Donut Charts
Learn how to create a Pie chart in PowerPoint with this step by step tutorial.
This video also covers how to adjust the Pie chart settings and also how to add Donut charts.
How to Animate a PowerPoint Table
Learn a trick to Animate a PowerPoint Table. PowerPoint does not have the feature of animating parts of a table.
[Advanced] Conditional Formatting for Charts
Learn to create a PowerPoint conditional formatting chart that changes color and direction of bar chart automatically for negative values. The positive values are displayed in green color and the negative values in red color.
PowerPoint Delivery Tips
Here are some tips for when you are actually delivering your presentation. Present confidently with these ideas!
Use Presenter View in PowerPoint like a PRO
How to use Presenter View in PowerPoint to present your slides like a PRO (Presentation Delivery Tips). This view is for the presenter only - when the slideshow
This requires 2 monitors (your laptop and the projector screen). Even if you want to use Presenter View in 1 monitor it is possible. Learn how with this video.
Use Hidden Slides to Present Confidently
In this video, you will find a PowerPoint Tip on how to use Hidden slides to present confidently. This feature is especially useful when creating business presentations.
PowerPoint Slideshow Shortcuts
Here are some useful PowerPoint Slideshow Shortcuts you can use when delivering your next presentation. Hope you find these PowerPoint tips useful.
If you wish to improve the quality of your medical slides in a reliable way, take a look at the first video over on this page.
PowerPoint Tips & Tricks
Here are some tips and tricks to reduce time taken to create your slides.
Setting Up Quick Access Toolbar
In this PowerPoint tips tutorial, you will find how to set up the Quick Access Toolbar.
It is a great time-saving tool for any version of PowerPoint.
Autocorrect Trick to Save Time
Learn this trick to use PowerPoint Auto-correct option to save time and effort in creating your presentations. Write complex medical terminology accurately & easily in PowerPoint!
Issue with Typical Medical Slides
Many of the medical slides you may see may look like this:
These slides are taken from various sources online like Slideshare and YouTube and represent various types of presentations. The common issues with such slides include:
- Issue with readability - due to poor color choices and font sizes
- Unprofessional design - with overlapping content, hard to read diagrams etc.
- Too much content - that overwhelms the audience
It is quite common to see well researched medical content being totally ignored by the audience - because the presentation slides look busy and boring. And…
You can’t blame your audience for tuning out of your presentation.
The quality of your slides makes or breaks your medical presentations.
If you wish to improve the quality of your medical slides in a reliable way, take a look at the first video over on this page.
Medical Slides Makeover Examples
In this section, we'll makeover usual text filled PowerPoint slides into a visual and interesting slides.
The original slides are taken from various sources online like Slideshare and YouTube and represent various types of presentations.
Medical Title Slide
Original title slide:
Title slide after makeover:
Medical Training Presentation Slide
Original training slide:
Training slide after makeover:
Medical Slide With Quote
Original slide with quote:
Quote slide after makeover:
Health and Safety Training Slide
Original training slide:
Slide after makeover:
In the Medical Presentations Bundle with Neuro Slide Design Training, you can watch me make over Text-based slides, a Blog article, a Wikipedia article and a 11-page Research paper. I go through each of the 4 steps to transform these text-based documents to clear and beautiful visual slides.
The Bundle includes 900 Fully Editable PowerPoint Templates. Go over and checkout the bundle.
One of the ways to quickly improve the quality of your slides is to use good quality templates create with the needs of medical presenters in mind. Here are some resources...
Medical PowerPoint Templates
Free Medical Title Templates
Leawo website provides free medical title templates for download. These templates are suitable for different type of medical presentations. You can preview and download them here.
FPPT website provides similar free title templates for use as well. You can find title templates related to medical and health fields over here on FPPT.
Premium Medical PowerPoint Templates
While free medical PowerPoint Templates are good enough for student or non-critical presentations, if you are consultant or specialist, you may prefer to use high-quality PowerPoint Templates.
Preview Medical PowerPoint Templates Bundle
Create Medical Slides You Feel Proud to Present Using the Breakthrough Slide Design System created using proven Brain research principles. You can preview templates from our Medical Templates Bundle below:
Browse more templates and know more about the Medical PowerPoint Templates Bundle here.
Free Medical & Healthcare Icons
Icons are useful to represent ideas on slides. Here are some useful links for downloading Healthcare and Medical Icons online.
ICONFINDER : This website has a good collection of vector icons without too many ads or links to other websites.. You can search iconfinder by keyword and specifically look for free to use icons. You can also search by types of icons like glyphs, outline, flat, filled outline, 3D and more.
VECTEEZY: This website provides both free and premium icons. The license may require you to provide attribution to the author. There are lot of popups and ads, and the focus in on their premium icons.
POWERPOINT: If you are using Office 365, you can find a lot of free icons right in PowerPoint. There are icons for people, technology and electronics, communication, business, analytics, commerce, education, signs and symbols, arrows, medical and much more. You can edit the fill colors of these icons to customize them.
Make your own icons in PowerPoint
Make your slides look professional and visual with these icons. Icons make it easy for your audience to remember the information you are presenting. Learn the secret to finding icons for free right within PowerPoint.
300+ Editable Icons for PowerPoint
The Medical Presentations Bundle includes 300+ Medical Icons for PowerPoint. You can break these icons into individual components, mix and match them to create custom icons that meet your specific needs. As one of the doctors using this Bundle said, it is a “ONE STOP SHOP” for every busy medical practitioner.
Free Medical Presentation Images
Medical presentations can be made more interesting and engaging by the addition of relevant images. If you are looking for high-quality free images, here are some suggestions:
FREEIMAGES.COM : Images on this website are free for use for personal and commercial purposes. You can find a range of generic medical and healthcare images here.
PICJUMBO.COM : This site provides free and interesting images for backgrounds.
WIKIPEDIA is a great source for free images and illustrations. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind when you use images from Wikipedia.
1) Please check the copyright terms for each image. You may need to provide attribution as per their terms.
2) Images may be of different formats, sizes, color schemes and quality.
Here is a collection of images from Wikipedia related to Brain:
150+ Medical Illustrations | 170+ Medical Photos | 150+ Silhouettes
In the Medical Presentations Bundle we have already done the hard work of putting together a large collection of high quality Medical, Pharma and Science photos & editable illustrations to use in your presentations.
Remember, these are not the usual photos of smiling Doctors and pretty handshakes. These are practical medical photos you can use in your medical slides to illustrate your ideas. As one of the doctors using this Bundle said, it is a “ONE STOP SHOP” for every busy medical practitioner.
More Resources for Medical Presentations
PowerPoint Skills for Medical Professionals
Learn the 14 essential PowerPoint techniques that every medical professional needs to know to design clear medical slides. This training is part of Medical Presentations Bundle.
Advanced PowerPoint Video Tutorials
Enhance your presentations with these ideas. In this section you will find extensive video tutorials for 2D and 3D Diagrams, Models, Picture Effects, Animations and More… Click here to browse
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