How to Make a Short PPT From a Long Medical Report

Official medical reports are detailed written records of a patient's medical history, including all of the procedures, treatments and medications that the patient was prescribed while under the report writer's care. Medical reports also include possible diagnoses, prognoses and future treatment plans and can be very long documents. PowerPoint presentations are meant to provide brief summaries or outlines of more detailed information that are used as cues for speakers and presenters. If you have to present a long medical report to a group, you can use PowerPoint to condense the information into only a few slides.

Things You'll Need

• PowerPoint
• Medical report

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Instructions

• 1

  Review your medical report and highlight or circle all of the information that you think is vitally important in one color. Use another color to highlight or circle all the information that you think is useful. If desired, highlight or circle information that you find interesting or possibly useful in a third color. This will make it easier to determine which information to cut and which information to include in your PowerPoint presentation.

• 2

  Open PowerPoint and type the title of your report, the date, and the name of the person presenting the report; these all go on the intro slide.

• 3

  Insert a new slide by clicking "insert" in the upper left portion of your screen and selecting "new slide." Insert six new slides into your Power Point presentation by repeating the process five times. The first slide should be titled "Case History" or something similar. Beneath "Case History," include all important information you highlighted with the first color that pertains to the case history. Eliminate most of the information highlighted in the second and third color.

• 4

  Title the second slide "Physical Examination," the third slide "Lab Reports," the fourth slide "Summary," the fifth slide "Assessment," and the sixth slide "Plan." Beneath each of these slides, include information highlighted with the first color. You can include some information highlighted with the second color, but use very few facts highlighted with the third. This will reduce the amount of information you have in your PowerPoint presentation.

• 5

  Review your presentation. If your presentation does not seem to make a logical progression, you may need to reword phrases or include more information. If you do not want to include more information in your presentation, take notes and refer to them rather than add more to the PowerPoint presentation.