Presenting to a clinical audience

The ability to deliver an effective presentation is an essential skill for any medical student or junior doctor. Students may be asked to present a verbal clinical summary of a patient they have just seen, or on what they have learnt from a clinical attachment or elective. Here are my tips. These tips are applicable to any form of presentation to a clinical audience from one to 100 in number:

• Introduce yourself. Whether you are standing in front of a radiologist in an x ray department, or a nationwide annual meeting of UK radiologists, tell them who you are and where you …