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A 7 year-old male with headache and vomiting

A 7 year-old male presents with headache, vomiting and gait ataxia. (more…)

Physician and student suicide

Today’s post is a break from our series on how to give a medical presentation (see tips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). (more…)

Medical presentation tip #5: Make your graphs awesome

Graphs show up frequently in medical presentations. (more…)

Medical presentation tip #4: Don’t read off the slides

We’ve all attended lectures in which the presenter basically read all the words right off his or her slides. That gets old fast. (more…)

Medical presentation tip #3: Use the right font

Your choice of font can make the difference between clear, professional-looking slides and unreadable, amateurish slides. (more…)

Medical presentation tip #2: Don’t crowd the slide with text.

One of the most common faux pas in medical presentations is making slides that are jam-packed with text.
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Medical presentation tip #1: Use a simple slide design

I’ve been giving and watching medical presentations for more years than I care to count. (more…)

A 3 year-old male with an abdominal mass

A 3 year-old boy presents with a 7 cm, solitary abdominal mass which is surgically removed. Grossly, the mass is well-circumscribed, soft, and tan. A representative section is shown here. (more…)

A 20 year-old male with a thigh mass

A 20-year-old male presents with a large mass deep in his right thigh. At surgical resection, the mass is 7 cm in diameter, with infiltrative borders. Two images of the mass are shown here. (more…)

A 42 year-old female with tinnitus and hearing loss

A 42 year-old female presents with tinnitus and hearing loss, and is found to have a mass at the cerebellopontine angle. A biopsy section is shown here.
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