What Each Slide Should Contain
For a journal club or scientific meeting, one slide per study is the standard. Each slide should include:
- Title — the study name or a short clinical question it answers
- Reference — first author, journal, year
- Design and N — study type and sample size in one line
- Key result — primary endpoint outcome, with numbers
- Take-home message — one sentence the audience will remember
Common Mistakes
A slide is not a poster. If the audience is reading your slide, they are not listening to you. Aim for no more than 5 bullet points, each under 10 words.
"p=0.03" means nothing without the underlying HR, OR, or difference in means. Always pair statistical significance with clinical magnitude.
Copying a table from the paper as an image rarely renders legibly on a projector. Extract the key numbers and reformat them — or use figure extraction to crop the original figure properly.
When to Use Figures
These are worth showing directly from the paper — they convey information that text cannot. Crop the figure precisely to remove journal headers and watermarks before inserting.
Putting two figures on the same slide makes both illegible. Give each figure its own slide with a clear title.
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