Ross Fisher

Ross Fisher

Affiliations: Consultant Paediatric Surgeon Dept of Paediatric Surgery Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH

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Bad presentations

Which is more painful: an unsolicited PPI telephone call during clinic? Your hospital email on returning from two weeks annual leave? The strong realisation on waking at 3am that you have contracted norovirus like the rest of the team? Or a 10 minute powerpoint presentation? It’s the powerpoint. That is the most painful. And, painful as it might be and unlike the others, it is all your fault.

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On increasing the power of presentations (p cubed)

In Medicine we believe our practice is evidence based and effectual. We review our results, keep abreast of the literature and make changes as knowledge evolves. Most presenters believe the same for their presentations. The majority of presentations directly contradict well established psychological principles, aspire to a level around them only of mediocrity and are almost uniformly ineffectual. Worse than this, we instruct our colleagues to present in the same way.

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