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📣  BASED FINANCE PROTOCOL UPDATE  📣

🔥500K $BASED BURNED🔥 🔥500K $BBOND BURNED🔥

🏛️ $BASED Circulating Supply: 23,994,827 🏛️ 🏛️ $BBOND Circulating Supply: 8,155,173 🏛️

NB: If you can demonstrate to your new attending on Day 1 that you can deliver a concise and thorough oral presentation, regardless of the strength of your A&P, you have already earned a High Pass (or at least, you should, given the RIME model of medical student evaluation, but more on that later). Instead of spending chunks of the rotation working on your presentation skills, you can concentrate on managing your patients – that is the most enjoyable and truly rewarding part of third year!

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So how do you deliver a concise and thorough presentation?

I assume knowledge of the proper presentation structure already. Here’s what isn’t always realized: a good presentation, for medstud purposes, doesn’t actually require possession of a large fund of knowledge. The most important components – and this is not stressed enough – are the soft skills that go into being an excellent communicator: organization, confidence, diction, perception and insight (the last is where clinical acumen really comes into play).

Organization and confidence: these go hand-and-hand, for the more organized you are, the more confident you’re going to be – not stuttering over your words, or having awkward multi-second pauses because you get lost in your presentation. Flow from one section to the next smoothly. Don’t repeat yourself. A great way to achieve fluency in your presentation is to make use of excellent scut sheets – or better yet, to not have scut sheets at all, but to have notes printed before rounds, even if they’re not 100% complete. Printing autopopulated labs and vitals on Epic is 10x faster than having to write them down by hand, every morning, for every patient. Plus, the EMR note should already be organized in the correct format for oral presentation – making it near impossible to get lost. That said, try not to spend 100% of your presentation reading off your notes; making eye contact and acknowledging each member of the team will keep people engaged with what you’re saying.

Diction: This requires some use of medical knowledge. Be succinct, not wordy, by using the appropriate medical terms in the appropriate contexts. Ex: “the patient started having chest pain that was associated with their breathing, and their oxygen saturation decreased from 98 to, uh, 92,” vs. “the patient developed pleuritic chest pain and de-satted from 98 to 92.” Convey the same information more precisely and in half the words. This is not the easiest skill to develop, but it’ll help if you…