(feedback from past conferences)
I. Topics
(remember who is the audience and what they want - make it relevant)
- need more information that is primary care related and can be immediately used in practice
- topic was not useful for hospital nursing
- interesting, but probably not useful in my practice
- interesting but "squishy" "non scientific"
- get to how primary care should handle these problems
- give us some hands on, practical information
II. Handouts
(they universally like them)
- handouts: none given
- handouts out of order
III. AV Aids
(the audience has got to be able to see them; keep slides simple)
- couldn’t see whiteboard from the back
- couldn’t see the video
- hard to see his overheads
- audiovisual slides not coordinated with talk
- PowerPoint specific:
- do not use a font size less than 18
- headers should be 45+ in size
- San Serf and Helvetica are the easiest to read
- font test: step back 5-6 feet from your monitor--if you can read the text it should work when projected
- do not use more than 3 fonts in one presentation
- rule of 666 (a 'devil' of a rule): no more than 6 words per bullet; no more than 6 bullets per slide; no more than 6 word slides in a row
- do not use light backgrounds in light rooms
IV. Style
(look the audience in the eye, speak up, and talk slowly)
- lots of info but almost all read off the slides
- difficult to find interest having material read from handout
- speaks too fast, mumbles
- spoke in monotone voice, read notes
- needs to stop reading and talk to the audience
- needs to speak louder
- started talking fast and then talked "indistinctly and in a monotone"
V. General
- need to start and end on time
- more case presentations, examples of real patient outcomes
- liked the fact that he referred to benefits/costs for managed care
- took way over allotted time
- obviously well paid by**** never mentioned any brand other than ****
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