Library resource guides: ANZCA & FPM CPD Program resources: Presenting

Guide index

Presenting at regional/national/international conferences/meetings

Presenting face-to-face or virtually on a topic relevant to your practice at a conference/other meeting organised by the college, a professional medical organisation, healthcare institution, or educational body.

Act as a plenary speaker at a conference - for example: ANZCA ASM or ASA NSC
Participate as an invited lecturer at a conference or meeting
Create a paper/poster presentation
Facilitate a problem-based learning/small group discussion session
Present a case report at your hospital
Present at your hospital's journal club
Perform a departmental presentation [must be relevant to your scope of practice]
Present at an ANZCA Introductory course or an ANZCA Examination Preparation session
Perform a presentation for trainees [excluding formal teaching and tutorials]

See also: Journal reading for more information on setting up a Journal Club at your hospital
See also: Teaching for any teaching including preparation and presentation of tutorials

How ANZCA can help:

Locate images suitable for embedding in presentations
Undertake a literature search to get the latest evidence for your presentation - or get the library to undertake a literature search on your behalf (free-of-cost)
Review the SRA Facilitating a group discussion/tutorial guideline

CPD Value: CPD participants may claim this under Knowledge and skills presenting activity.

Library resources

Presenting Your Case: A Concise Guide for Medical Students by Clifford D. Packer
ISBN: 9783030137915
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Presenting at Medical Meetings by Jim A. Reekers Lectures on scientific data, educational lectures, and the various other forms of oral presentation are the basis for every medical meeting. Physicians are not professionally trained in giving lectures. This becomes very obvious when one visits a medical meeting. Often the message of the presentation is lost because of poor preparation, slides that fail to communicate effectively, and a generally unconvincing performance by the lecturer. To give a high-quality lecture that will be remembered for its content and form, one first has to learn some basic rules about preparation, PowerPoint slides, and oral communication. This book will enable the reader to overcome all the common presentation mistakes and to start a new career as a professional lecturer and esteemed faculty member.
ISBN: 9783642124075
Publication Date: 2010-08-12

Conference poster resources

ACP: Preparing a Poster Presentation
Poster presentations often are the first opportunities for young investigators to present their work at important scientific meetings and preparatory for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
The Facilitators Network: 7 Ways to Facilitate Small Group Discussions
Here are 7 ways to facilitate small group discussions. What method might work best for your next session?

Creating conference posters: Practical tips by Monash Health
This document provides practical guidance on creating effective conference posters. Use it as a step-by-step guide or dip into a section relevant to your needs.

Presentation resources

Mai CL, Minehart RD, Pian-Smith MC. Seven tips for giving an engaging and memorable presentation. BJA Educ. 2019 Sep;19(9):274-275. Abstract available
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Effective and memorable presentations should be fun, and informative for the presenters and the learners. Engaging presenters stimulate connections with the audience. Excellent presentations not only provide information, but also give opportunities to apply new ideas during and after the talk to ‘real-life’ situations, and add relevant ‘take-home’ messages.1 In this article we highlight educational techniques that can be used to enhance the impact of a presentation. Although all these techniques can be incorporated in the modified form into large plenary lectures, we suggest that the ‘think-pair-share’, ‘role-playing’, and ‘flipped classroom’ techniques may be more effective in smaller classroom settings.

Writing a case report resources

Shelton CL, Kearsley R. How to write a case report in anaesthesia and peri-operative medicine. Anaesthesia. 2022 Oct;77(10):1163-1166.
Guidelines To Writing A Clinical Case Report. Heart Views. 2017 Jul-Sep;18(3):104-105.
Sun Z. Tips for writing a case report for the novice author. J Med Radiat Sci. 2013 Sep;60(3):108-13. Keywords: Case reports; publishing; research; writing.
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Abstract
A case report is a description of important scientific observations that are missed or undetectable in clinical trials. This includes a rare or unusual clinical condition, a previously unreported or unrecognized disease, unusual side effects to therapy or response to treatment, and unique use of imaging modalities or diagnostic tests to assist diagnosis of a disease. Generally, a case report should be short and focussed, with its main components being the abstract, introduction, case description, and discussion. This article discusses the essential components of a case report, with the aim of providing guidelines and tips to novice authors to improve their writing skills.

ANZCA & FPM resources

CPD Activity Guide
This guide contains a list of all the activities associated with the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program, as well as links to associated individual activity guides and forms.
Scholar role activities – Facilitating a group discussion/tutorial guidelines
Facilitating a small group discussion or a tutorial group effectively involves the acquisition of a skill set not often learnt during undergraduate or postgraduate studies. It is, however, a vital element in being a good educator and for this reason is one of the core elements in the scholar role requirements for fellowship.

ANZCA: Roles in Practice - Communicator Library Guide
This guide contains informative, accessible and diverse training resources, including those available through the ANZCA library, to support communication activities that help establish rapport, trust, and ethical therapeutic relationships with patients and their families.
ANZCA: Communication in Anaesthesia Library Guide
This guide has been designed for anaesthetists interested in Communication in Anaesthesia to locate relevant resources on this topic, including those available through the ANZCA library.
ANZCA: Research Support Hub
This hub has been designed to bring together the various resources provided by the college and ANZCA library to support research-related activities.
ANZCA: Research Support Essentials Library Guide
Locate tools, services and resources that will increase their understanding of research fundamentals, as well as highlighting the latest research-related news.
ANZCA: Literature Searching Library Guide
Learn more about how to conduct your own literature search and the ANZCA library's literature search service.
ANZCA: Multimedia Resources Guide
This guide contains useful multimedia resources for anaesthesia and pain medicine specialists, including images suitable for embedding in presentations.

Title: Get your abstract noticed!… the formula for good abstract writing

This webinar covers how to write an inspiring and compelling abstract for a poster, free paper presentation or journal article. Experts in the field discuss practical tips and tools to give you the confidence to submit your own abstract.

Presented by: Debra Kiegaldie, Assoc. Prof. Marc Russo, Kathryn Rough
Presented: 11 December 2023
Duration: 59 mins

How to write a good abstract presentations
Download a copy of the combined presentations (PDF)