Guidelines for Oral Presentation

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Key Dates

• Dec 6-8, 2022 – DPHICON 2022 – International Public Health Conference 2022 at the Radisson Blu Resort Temple Bay, Mamallapuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• 20-11-2022 - Deadline for submission of the PowerPoint of oral presentation

Oral presentations will take place on all three days of the conference. The presentations will take place in the 3-4 Halls simultaneously. Each oral presentation will have a maximum of 7 minutes followed by 3 minutes question and answer session. It is better to have 10-15 slides maximum in the prescribe template attached.

General Outline of the Presentation

To get your audience’s attention and set the stage for what is to follow, begin the presentation by stating what kind of study you have done and what key points you are going to demonstrate. Usually, you will not go wrong if you tell the audience what you are going to present, present the data, and then give your interpretation, conclusions, and implications.

1. Overview

• Tell the audience what you are going to tell them.
• What type of study was done, and the methodology ?
• The key findings of the study (data will describe).

2. Background

• State the problem that led to the study and give pertinent background information.

3. Methods, results/key findings, and conclusions/interpretations of the study

• You may present methods, results, and interpretations for each finding together.
• You do not have to present all methods, followed by all results, and then all the interpretations.
• Summarize your key findings (optional).
• Describe the control measures undertaken and recommendations made.
• Describe the public health importance of your findings.
• Present your conclusions.

4. Acknowledgements

• If appropriate, include acknowledgements, be brief.
• Acknowledgements can be either at the beginning or end of the presentation.

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Tips on Preparing Slides

Purpose:

• An audience remembers more of what it sees than what it hears.
• Slides are used to inform, convince, motivate to action, and selectively inform.
• Slides should contain only important and useful data and text. Leave out all unnecessary lines, words, data points, or extraneous material.

Format:

• Slides should be horizontal rather than vertical so they will fit on most screens.
• Text slides should use no more than six bulleted text items or no more than eight lines of text in a text block or table. If you have more text lines than that, consider separating the text into two slides.
• The text or graph should fill the middle 3/4 to 4/5 of the slide area, leaving a narrow border on all sides. No text, line, or data, should run off the central area and onto the border.
• Three-dimensional slides should be used only if they really add something important to your slides. Otherwise, they may distort data and create unnecessary distractions.

Text:

• Each slide should have a single focus.
• Use one slide to present one concept.
• For multiple points, use multiple slides.
• Use only keywords and only those that are appropriate to the audience. Do not use sentences. Use keywords as a basis for your discussion rather than reading from your slides.
• Break lines of text at a logical spot (where the viewer can take a mental breath).
• Abbreviate when you can. Use acronyms and symbols to reduce the amount of text on slides if space is at a premium.
• Never use all capital letters; highlight with colour or by some other means.
• Avoid numbering items in slides; use bullets instead. A common hierarchy for bullet symbols is round, dash, triangle.

Bullet text slides:

Bullets are the standard format for most text slides. Their purpose is to organize keywords. For effective bullet slides:

• Follow the order of text
• Keep the verb form consistent
• Keep the same style of the bullet at each level
• Keep capitalization consistent

Limit the amount of information on a slide. Too much information can be distracting to the audience. The following are some examples:

• Several points on one slide
• Too many bullets and sub-bullets
• Using full sentences or long phrases instead of keywords
• Footnotes and giving credits to sources

Type (Font):

• We suggest using the font formatted in the slide template shared.
• Titles are usually cast in a larger and heavier typeface than body text.

Colour slides:

• We suggest using the slide template for preparing the presentation.
• The presentations which are not prepared using the template will not be allowed to be presented.

Effective slides are:

• Simple.
• Clear.
• Visible.

Preparing, saving and sharing the Power Point presentation:

• Power Point presentation can be prepared using the slide template provided.
• Once the presentation is designed, it can be saved and labelled with Abstract number and the Name of the presenter (Ex: 45-Tamil Selvi).

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