Number of Slides
A good rule of thumb is to show no more than one slide per minute, recognizing that extra time may be needed to orient your audience to slides displaying data.

Contrasting Colors
Make sure your slides consist of contrasting colors that will show up in a darkened room - either a dark font on a light background or a light font on a dark background.

Slide Format

• For text slides, use a larger font.
• Use no more than four or five bullets per slide.
• Bullets should be one or two lines at most and contain no more than six words per line.
• For data slides with a two-column table, you should have no more than five rows. For a three-column table, you should have no more than three rows.

Presentation
      Introduction (2-3 slides)

• Appropriate attention getter
• Rationale for the study
• Study questions/hypotheses
• List of organization(s) funding the project

      Method (2-4 slides)

• Design
• Sampling
• Data collection
• Key variables
• Analytic strategies
• When presenting statistical tests you should indicate which variables will be used for each analytic strategy.

      Results (2-4 slides)

• Summary (1 slide)
• Significance/relevance to policy, management and/or clinical practice (1-2 slides)

For help with organization/design or review of your PowerPoint presentation, contact the Synergy Medical Research Department at research@synergymedical.org at least three weeks before you are scheduled to present. This will allow sufficient time for feedback and changes.