TIPS for JOURNAL CLUB PRESENTATION:

1. Follow the words on the slide with what you are saying – engage the slide and connect with the audience.
2. Keep your presentation clear and simple.
3. Try to avoid “ums” in the delivery of your presentation.
4. Slow the pace of the delivery – avoid reading from a script and reduce reliance on notes – as this does not show understanding.
5. Reduce information on slides – choose an appropriate font and size.
6. If you use graphs on the slide, make sure that the audience can clearly see the graph -if you have a table and some areas are important highlight those areas maybe with a different colour.
7. Concentrate on the flow of the presentation – connect the sections.
8. Voice projection is important – work on a professional but enthusiastic presentation.
9. Introduce the journal article -title, lead author et al, journal name and year.
10. Use of appropriate animations can add to your presentation – easy for the audience to follow.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA for JOURNAL CLUB:

Content / 40

• Clearly indicates knowledge and understanding of the journal article
• Includes, introduction, methodology used and findings of the article, what the authors discussed and concluded.

Critical appraisal of journal article / 20

Limitations in the article – in addition to their own critical appraisal of the article, especially the rigour of the methodology – to deliver valid results.

Presentation Skills / 20

Comfortable, projects voice, good pace, confident, engages with slides and audience, stays within time limits

Visual Aids  / 20

Readable, pertinent, appropriately sized font understandable