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Practice Management Academy Instructor's Guide: Presentation Design & Planning

Information and resources for those serving as instructors in the Practice Management Academy.

Who is the audience?

This class is part of the Practice Management Academy’s Boot Camp for New Practice Managers.  Your audience will have some knowledge of medical office practices but will be looking for the “why” of various procedures as well as best practices.   Assume your students are completely new to your subject matter and be sure to define acronyms and other jargon.

Suggested Presentation Specifications

Length Content: 50 minutes, 10 minutes for questions, discussion or other activities
Header  No smaller than 30 point
Text No smaller than 30 point
Fonts Avoid intricate fonts.  Many experts recommend Serif fonts (fonts with feet like this) for headings and Sans Serif (fonts with no feet like this) for text.  Serif fonts include Times New Roman, Garamond, Cambria and Georgia.   Some familiar sans serif fonts include Arial, Helvetica and Calibri.

Design

Avoid single-spaced blocks of text
If you want to have verbatim notes handy, consider using the speaker notes section of PowerPoint so participants won't feel they are being read to.  Less is more!   If you need help with this, ask Jane.
Some experts recommend the 6x6 rule: No more than 6 points to a slide, or six words to a bullet.
 
Objectives Three to five objectives

 

PowerPoint Template

To obtain a copy of the Virtual Practice Management Academy PowerPoint template, email Jane Moran at jane.moran@sr-ahec.org

Images and Graphics

Sources of free images

Google Images 

  1. Search the image you want
  2. Click Tools at the top of the page
  3. Select limits by size, color, type, time and usage rights.

Bing Images

  1. Search the desired image
  2. Click Filter
  3. Select limits by size, color, type, and usage rights

Pexels.com - May need to create free account

Pixabay.com - May need to create free account

Creative Commons

Writing Objectives

Your presentation should have no more than five objectives. 

Bloom's Taxonomy can help you write effective objectives