Tapping the Power of PowerPoint for Medical Posters and Presentations

This book talks about developing and improvising upon medical presentations by equipping readers with critical technical tips and tricks to use popular presentation programs like PowerPoint or Keynote effectively. The book details numerous remedial measures for qualitative improvement of average medical presentations. It has three sections: first covers the general aspects of preparing a presentation; the second provides practical details and refinements of preparing a medical presentation; the last section deals with niceties of podium and webinar presentations. The chapters cover many serious mistakes and remedial measures to improve average medical presentations, such as a description of purposeful use of colors in a slide, a brief discourse on technicalities of appropriate clinical image formats for projection ensues; the use of drawing and photo-editing programs to inject excellence in the contents of a medical presentation to help it stand out in the crowd, details on the importance of lexical correctness- typography, line spacing and alignment to enhance the impact of the presented text and many more. Several short videos support and actively promote the viewpoints discussed in the text. This book elaborates on the exquisite art of creating remarkable medical presentations for a specialized audience. This book is a must-have for all healthcare professionals of all specialties and grades who make podium presentations in a medical conference webinar or submit posters for display.

Author Biography

Dr. Anand Thakur is currently in private practice in Mumbai and teaches postgraduate courses in orthopedics. He received his MS ortho degree from the University of Bombay in 1970 and his MBBS degree from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, in 1965. He has worked as a consultant orthopedic surgeon at Cambridge Military hospital, Aldershot, UK, and RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Juhu, Mumbai; he was professor of orthopedic surgery at GS Medical College, Parel, and university of Bombay, Mumbai.  He has authored three bestsellers, namely Locking Plates: Concepts and Applications (2E), Strategic Radiographic Positioning for Orthopedicians and Radiologists, and The Elements of Fracture Fixation (5E). He has also published several research papers in indexed journals