Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals

Gain the confidence & skills to articulate, excel and inspire in presentations & teaching

Presentations and teaching skills form one of the core backbone elements of a successful medical career. Faced with a diverse range of scenarios, from teaching staff to interview presentations right through to a presentation of an international multicentre trial, it is surprising that few have ever received any formal training in this vital area. The Medicology Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals Course represents a single, intensive day approach to dealing with the core elements of effectiveness in this area, including addressing confidence, fear and nerves to create a competent delivery with presence, planning effectively to put the right content in that really hits home with the audience, understanding the psychology of the audience to take your skills to an advanced level, structuring a wide variety of presentation and teaching types for maximum impact and engagement and more. It’s probably the most comprehensive and effective 1-day course of its type, regardless of how much teaching or how many presentations you’ve made to date.

• Understand the attributes of effective presentations & teaching
• Plan presentations & teaching more effectively with the audience in mind
• Make delivery & content more engaging & inspiring
• Tailor your approach for different learning styles & psychologies
• Overcome anxiety to deliver with confidence
• Achieve specific outcomes with presentations
• Effectively handle difficult questions & people

• Understanding the attributes of successful presentations & teaching
• Analysing your audience to create more relevance
• Adult learning principles and how these impact different scenarios
• Planning powerful presentations & teaching
• Setting presentation objectives to achieve specific outcomes
• Structuring different types of presentation, from a 15 minute podium slot through to day-long teaching
• Use of exercises, discussions & cases
• Getting the right content, driven by your objectives
• Conveying complex ideas and results
• Using PowerPoint & other mediums effectively
• Creating attractive, professional presentations
• Audience psychology and how to manage it
• Engaging your audience by making it fun and interesting
• Overcoming anxiety in public speaking
• Effective delivery - posture, voice & psychology
• Developing openings and closure with impact
• Tailoring your language to the audience
• Dealing with difficult people & questions
• Blueprint for continually effective presenting & teaching

The course consists of an engaging mixture of delivery styles including lectures, discussions, case studies, exercises and facilitated sessions, all designed to combine the necessary theory with the practical application.

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