This document provides guidance for presenters on a postgraduate medical education program. It addresses requirements for disclosing conflicts of interest and commercial support. Presenters are advised to mitigate potential biases and select fonts, backgrounds and images that enhance readability. Objectives, citations, and defining acronyms are also covered to help presenters develop lectures that engage students and meet standards for medical education.

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Faculty/Presenter Disclosure
• Faculty: [Speaker’s name]
• Relationships with commercial interests:
– Grants/Research Support:
– Speakers Bureau/Honoraria:
– Consulting Fees:.
– Other:

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Disclosure of Commercial Support
• This presentation has received financial support from [organization name] in
the form of [describe support here – e.g. an educational grant].
• This presentation has received in-kind support from [organization name] in
the form of [describe support here – e.g. logistical support].
• This presentation has received no support from any organization.
• Potential for conflict(s) of interest:
– [Speaker/Faculty name] has received [payment/funding, etc.] from
[organization supporting this presentation AND/OR organization whose
product(s) are being discussed in this presentation].
– [Supporting organization name] [developed/licenses/distributes/benefits from
the sale of, etc.] a product that will be discussed in this presentation: [insert
generic and brand name here].

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Mitigating Potential Bias
• [Explain how potential sources of bias identified in slides 1 and 2
have been mitigated].

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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the
sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal
tools.
• http://teaching.usask.ca/curriculum/creative-commons.php
• https://creativecommons.org/

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Lecture Title
Course Number
Presenter Name
And Credentials

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Choose your font
 Choose a font that is easily read by all students
a) Arial, Calibri, or other SANS fonts are most easily read
 Use a font size of 28-32 so the words are easily read by
all students in the class

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Keep the Look Simple
 Keep the background white and the font black so the
presentation is easy to read and to print
 Some students are color blind; black and white is seen
by everyone
 Don’t crowd the slide with lots of text

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Do you need a handout?
 PowerPoint is designed as an aide to conveying
information, not the means of conveying it.
 Consider the 5x5 suggestion (~5 bullet points with ~5
words per point)
 Use PowerPoint to address large overreaching content,
handouts are a better means to convey specifics of
content.

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Objectives
 List the session objectives that are attached to the
session on one45
 These objectives are what need to be taught in your
session
 The exam questions need to come from what is taught
and must link back to the objectives

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Pace your lecture
 No more than one slide per minute of lecture time
 Remember each hour of lecture is actually only 50
minutes of time with the students

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Use Pictures
 Consider including pictures, diagrams, or other
representations that help students understand the
concepts you are presenting
 How can you visually convey the message?

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Pictures and Diagrams
 Need to have the explanations and labels with them to
be meaningful
 So students understand why
the picture is used in the
context of the lecture

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add your labels
 If there is something specific in a diagram or picture
that you are referring to in your lecture, use arrows or
circles to draw attention to it.

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Have you used TopHat?
 TopHat is a teaching tool that increases student
participation and helps students learn the content in an
engaging way
 To learn more about ways you can use TopHat, check it
out here:
a) http://www.usask.ca/ict/services/instructional-
technologies/top-hat-audience-reponse-system1/

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Cite your sources
 Please use the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (ICMJE) citation format
 Examples of this citation format are available at
www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

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Copyright questions?
 Copyrighted images (with source cited) can be shared
for educational purposes under copyright law U of S
copyright info

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Choices for presentations
 If you want to exclude certain images from your posted
powerpoint, please submit a separate version (minus
those images) for posting
 If recording, you can opt for audio recording only if you
don’t want slides shown

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Spell out the acronyms
 The first time you use an acronym in your presentation,
spell it out
 On the last page of your presentation, spell out the full
name of each acronym you used during your
presentation
Examples
a) UGME – undergraduate medical education
b) CoM – College of Medicine

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Save your work
 The students use the notes area below the slides to
type their notes during lectures
 Please save your work as a power point file so the
students can use the file for their note taking
 Submit your powerpoint to the course admin 5
working days before your presentation

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Thank you!
 Thank you for taking the time to make your
presentation student-friendly