Oral Communication Skills
A key skill for any scientist is communicating ideas orally to your mentors and peers. Throughout your career you will be faced with the challenge of speaking in front of groups small and large – to explain a paper in journal clubs, to present a poster, to give a talk at conferences, and so on.
These resources are designed to help you master the craft of giving oral presentations in various settings. The links below lead to PowerPoint or video files used for our workshops for first year CLIMB students when we focus on oral communication skills.
Click below to view videos or to download the pdf files of PowerPoint presentations.
An introduction to scientific oral presentations and posters:
Creating a 10-15 Minute Scientific Presentation:
- Part 1 - Creating an Introduction (video): Creating an introduction (large pptx file of slides in video with an audio clip of the speaker)
- Part 2 - Creating the body of the presentation; design/methods; data/results; conclusions (video); Creating the body of the presentattion (large pptx file of slides in video with an audio clip of the speaker)
Designing PowerPoint slides for a scientific presentation
Displaying Scientific Evidence for Making Valid Decisions: Lessons from Two Case Studies 
