Dear participant,
I firmly believe that every trainee of Emergency Medicine is tomorrow’s pillar of the specialty.
Free Podium Presentation is my way of providing you with a platform to present a topic of your
passion or a research study, that you have undertaken. This is intended to meet your training
requirements as well as to sharpen your public speaking skills. In this document, I have enumerated
the regulations of the Free Podium presentation, provided guidelines and caveats for preparing for
this event. I look forward to personally witnessing the event - to see the limelight on you!
Best of luck!
Suresh David
Details Regarding the Podium Presentation Competition
- There will be a 5-member International Judges Panel. They would have no idea of your
affiliations and therefore the judging would be unbiased. There are cash prizes for the
3 best presentations.
- You can utilise 7 minutes for presentation, followed by 2 minutes of discussion.
- Points are allotted by a 5-point Likert scale on the following criteria:
- a. novelty of the content,
- b. methodology,
- c. quality of presentation
- and d. lessons learnt.
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Speak slowly, use short sentences and small words. Avoid phrases that are difficult to pronounce.
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There will be negative marking for exceeding time limits. Rehearse well with a timer, if you wish to avoid this mishap.
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The submitted presentation should not have been published in an indexed journal or submitted for publication. However, after the conference, they may be published. All presentations would be scrutinised with sophisticated software, for authenticity. Be cautious – do not get disqualified!
Regulations for Free Podium Presentation
- The entire program consists exclusively of verbal presentation.
There are no poster presentations, to avoid the exorbitant expense incurred by trainees.
- Presenters should register first for the Conference.
- All presenters would receive a Participation Certificate for their podium presentation.
- You will not be able to use your own laptop computer for presentation.
- All presenters must report to the Speakers' Presentation Centre,
1 hour prior to the onset of the program and ensure that their presentation
is loaded and functional. Please do not arrive late - you will not be accommodated,
once the program commences.
- Your presentation must be handed to the audio-visual technician on a memory stick.
- Your PowerPoint files uploaded at the Speaker's Presentation Centre will be automatically transmitted to the laptop computer at the podium, before your session begins.
- Your time begins from the second the first slide is projected on screen.
- The Presentation Hall would support data projection only through Microsoft Office PowerPoint Professional. Do not use any other software to prepare your slides.
- You should have a backup of your presentation, if there are any unforeseen mishaps.
- You would need to control your PowerPoint presentation with the provided remote presenter. Learn its usage from the technician in the Speaker’s Presentation Centre.
- Results would be announced the following day and the first 3 best presentations would be awarded prizes, trophies and certificates.
- No awards would be distributed in absentia. If the presenter is absent for the valedictory function, the prize goes to the next best presentation.
Guidelines For Preparing PowerPoint Slides
- In order to maintain anonymity, the slides should not reveal the names or the institution of the presenter in any slide or verbally, during the presentation. Do not include the presenter’s names, photographs of your institution or your peers and mentors in your presentation. Do not reveal the identity of study participants/patients in text or pictures. Violation of these rules would result in disqualification.
- Keep slides concise and visually appealing. Use graphs rather than just figures and words. Ensure that graphs and other illustrations are simple.
- Text should be minimal, easy to read with a high-contrast, readable font of size 36 and above. Remember, this is your presentation; the audience should be listening to you, not reading your slide on their own.
- Always use standard TrueType fonts. Use the standard TrueType fonts supplied with PowerPoint. If you attempt to use any other font you may have problems on the computer you are presenting from.
- Do not use Beige or light brown colour on your slides. Data projectors have difficulty reproducing these colours and will make it yellow.
- Background colours should either be dark with light font colour or vice versa. For best visibility, font colour should be white or yellow on a dark background.
- DO NOT include links to other files - as there is potential for delays and technological hiccups.
- Embedding of pictures should be in JPEG format. This will decrease the size of your presentation and it will load quicker.
- DO NOT use videos. Delays would result in unexpected negative marking.
- Remember that the slides are meant to enhance your presentation. Do not complicate your visual presentation with too many special effects.
- Acknowledge any copyrighted material with proper references. It is the presenters' responsibility to ensure they have the copyright to use the images in their presentations.