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Guidelines for the 3-4 minute Pre-Poster Oral Presentation at PSNA Meetings
 


Due to the fast-pace of these presentations, overhead transparencies must be used for the visual aid.  The following are some suggestions/hints for preparing this presentation.

Organization

1.     Keep the overheads simple and/or be ready to point to the important parts.  Do not try to show all of your data in this short presentation.  Use this time to give background information and then invite the audience to visit your poster to see what results you have obtained and your interpretation of these results.

2.     First overhead – this should include information on the poster title, authors, and affiliation.  It is a good idea to include the poster number if you have this information.

3.     Second overhead – present concise background information.  Why is this area of research interesting? 

4.     Third overhead - present the question that your research is trying to answer.  This could be presented as a statement of the hypothesis or as a series of questions the research is addressing.

5.     Fourth overhead – provide information on the general approaches that are being used in your research.  Finish with a statement inviting the audience to visit your poster to see your results and provide the audience with the poster number so that they know where to find your poster.

Presentation

1.     Be sure to practice before you give the presentation to be sure that you are keeping the time to 3-4 minutes.

2.     When presenting, be sure to face the audience so that they can see and hear you.  You can use a pencil or pen to point to areas on your transparencies where you want the audience to focus their attention.  If you point on the overhead as it sits on the projector, the pencil will be projected also and you do not have to turn away from the audience.

3.     When the time beeps, stop speaking, smile, and say thank you and remove your transparencies so the next person can start.  Please note, if you make sure that your presentation takes 3 minutes you will be able to finish before the timer beeps.

4.     Enjoy this opportunity!!

 

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