This introductory lecture was given to the master students at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic session. I was prompted to find out more on how to improve power point presentations after seeing some of the sad states of presentations done with a "copy-and-paste" style resulting in slides with too many words

1. Improving Power Point Presentations K.S. Chew School of Medical Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia

2. What’s The Problem With Most Power Point Presentations?

3. Does this look familiar? What a torture by Power Point Presentation, or is it really?

4. Basically the problems can be due to the Presenter or …the Slides

5. Introduction Speaker Audience Speaker Encoding Decoding Audience Communication Gap ✗

8. THE SLIDES

9. Three Simple Rules In Preparing Your Slides

10. RULE #1 : KEEP IT SIMPLE, SWEET (K.I.S.S)

12. Use 6 * 6 RULE 6 LINES PER SLIDE 6 WORDS PER LINE

13. Avoid Text Indigestion!! At the whole-body level, shock from any etiology initiates a sequence of stress responses that are intended to preserve flow to vital organs and to signal cells to expend internal energy stores ( Figure 4-2). The circulating “stress hormones” derive mainly from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenomedullary axis, which leads to secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine from the adrenal medulla and corticosteroids from the adrenal cortex, renin from the kidney, and glucagon from the pancreas. These hormones signal the liver to break down glycogen to release glucose into the plasma and alert adipose tissue to release fatty acids via lipolysis. As a result, stress hormones increase the input of carbon substrates into the TCA throughout the body, often overwhelming the mitochondrial ability to oxidize them and leading to an increase in lactic acid production and release into the bloodstream.

14. Body Hormonal Response To Shock

15. But A Picture Paints A Thousand Words

16. Even For Figures and Charts, Simplify Them! Too detailed !

17. Easier To Digest Much Simpler

18. RULE #2 : LIMIT THE NUMBER OF SLIDES

21. RULE #3 : USE APPROPRIATE FONTS

34. THE PRESENTER

37. Eye Contact

38. CONCLUSION

40. Please have Some Mercy On Your Audience… don’t use too many bullets….

41. Enjoy Your CME!