What sets the presentations created for medicine to be different than conventional PowerPoints?
Echo: Honestly, I dont know that there is such a thing as a conventional PowerPoint! PowerPoint is used in so many ways. One thing common to many medical presentations, though, is the sheer amount of data-driven slides. That means lots of charts, lots of tables, and lots of really text-heavy slides. I find that the extreme mix of chart slides is always a challenge in medical presentations more so than with what I see in other industries. For example, its not unusual for a medical presenter to want four or six very small charts on a slide, with the goal of comparing various studies or compounds at different stages. Therefore, understanding what point the speaker wants to make becomes imperative to the design of the slide. If you can eliminate or at least downplay the extraneous information, you can emphasize whats important what the audience should remember. So, maybe after this four-chart slide, theres a column chart. Then a line chart, then a pie chart, then a column chart with a tren
