1. Guidelines for CAT Presentations

2. No more than 5-6 bullets per slide Font size 32 or greater
Keep formatting standard
Don’t need full sentences
Use notes box for personal reminders
You want people to be listening to you, NOT reading your slides, too many words makes it difficult to follow the presentation. Use this “notes box” to help you remember details you want to include during your talk that don’t warrant a highlighted spot on the slide

3. What made you come up with it?
Background
What is your question?
What made you come up with it?
Rounds
Clinic
Deep thoughts
What is the educational significance of your question?
2-3 slides for this, no more!

4. Your Search
Resources used
How many studies did you include?
What were your criteria?

5. Description of study: 1 slide Validity: 2 slides
Article Appraisal
Description of study: 1 slide
Validity: 2 slides
What were the results: 1-2 slides, can include tables from the article
Applicability: 1 slide
Your bottom line: 1 slide
Total: No more than 8 slides per article
This may not seem like a lot of slides, but remember that you are going to use this text box for additional information you’d like to discuss…you don’t need a slide for everything. Think about the CATs you’ve attended that have been boring…4-5 articles are a lot to get through, make it interesting and engaging for your attendees.

6. Grand Finale
Study
Validity
Results
Applicability/Bottom Line

7. Conclusion
What is your overall conclusion?
Did this exercise change your practice at all?
(Brief) recommendations for future directions (More studies? Not worth studying after all?)
Questions from audience