Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

The person who learns most from a lecture is a lecturer.

Two principles are less is more, and silence is key.

There is no difference in learning between lectures with PowerPoint and lectures without PowerPoint.

Would you have a podium between you and a friend having a beer?

You want me to distill 20 years of practice and preparation and all the work that I've done

into 90 seconds on a podcast on how to create a really effective slide.

You can do it, man.

The teaching of medicine is the most honorable profession.

Whether you're a first-year resident or a veteran of EM,

you've probably given or will be giving at least one presentation at some point in your career.

On the one hand, presentations can be intimidating, time-consuming, and frightening.

But on the other hand, if you're prepared and you know the tricks of the trade, they can be fun, educational, and hugely rewarding.

Giving a memorable and educational talk requires skill. It requires serious, thoughtful preparation,

practice, and creativity. The good news is that these skills can be easily taught.

What we know about giving great talks comes from non-medical fields.

We can learn about how to use our voices, eyes, and body language effectively during a presentation from actors.

We can learn how to build great slides from experts in design.

We can learn how to use stories to help engage in audience and improve their attention of the material from writers, broadcasters, and storytellers.

We can learn how to inspire people from professional speechwriters, and we can employ strategies to help improve retention of material from cognitive neuroscientists and educators.

Now, as EM providers, we're much too busy to read dozens of books on effective presenting,

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