At the center of most good scientific presentations are the slides. Use the many resources available to help you make your slides. Your preceptor and residents will be very helpful here, and the department you are working with should take care of the funding. Many computer programs, such as Power Point, are easy to use. Photographs of equipment, figures, graphs, and anatomy books can be easily obtained and usually project very nicely.
Many departments have access to a medical illustrator.
An effective slide should have a main point and not just be a collection of available data. If this central theme of the slide cannot be readily identified, the paper probably would be improved by revising or deleting the slide. The main point should catch the attention of the audience immediately, and should be understood soon thereafter. While trying to figure out what the slide has to say, the audience is not paying full attention to what the speaker is saying, and this obviously should be minimized. With a simple, uncluttered format, the slide is relatively easy to design and directs the attention of the audience to the main point.