Would you like to get new insight and expert tips for communicating your science and managing yourself during scientific presentations? How about an opportunity to create, deliver, and get feedback on your presentations? Join us for a two-part training in scientific presentation skills with an expert trainer in scientific communication. You’ll learn about yourself and best practices, build and deliver a presentation, and get dedicated and individualised developmental feedback and reference material.

DDEA and Partners in Training (PinT) welcome you to this two-part course on scientific presentation skills training. Topics covered in the course include (but are not limited to):

• Establishing presence & managing self
• Designing impactful slides & understanding the medium of presentations
• Building scientific story & making messages stick
• Creating impactful openings & pitching science
• Managing the Q&A & asserting authority

The training consists of two parts:

1. A 60-minute webinar on 8, 9 or 12 February. The webinar will outline best practices and key considerations in terms of designing an impactful medical and scientific talk. The purpose of this activity is to ensure that you will arrive to the course with material that you can work on at the course.
2. A two-day on-site course on 27-28 February. The highly practical course will provide participants with the chance to further develop and finesse their skills as communicators of complex science and data. Participants will have the opportunity to work with peers in delivering their own talks and receive expert training on best practices. For the peer work, discrete groups will be established in which participants will work together and assess one another according to a prescribed feedback rubric. These groups will be organised according to the participants’ research interests. The final output of the course will be for each participant to deliver a ~10-minute presentation tailored to your defined audience and be given feedback, coaching, and advice on how to present effectively. If you wish, your talks can be filmed. These presentations will be arranged in a series of self-contained symposia.

Overall, the training will be highly interactive, participant-driven, and hands-on in which the participants will further heighten their knowledge, skills, and behaviours in relation to presenting medical and scientific data. The skills training will provide a clear approach to preparing presentations and an easy-to-follow strategy for the effective delivery of presentations and communication of data to the medical and scientific community.

Instructor

Jonathan Raine, Partners in Training (UK)

Partners in Training has over 40 years of international experience in designing and delivering high-quality, bespoke training and professional development programmes. Their international experience within the pharma, medical and academic sectors is extensive.

Target group

This course is intended for early-career researchers working within any field of diabetes, metabolism, and classical endocrinology. You may come from clinical, basic, translational or interdisciplinary research and be working in any sector.

Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note that you are not guaranteed a seat in the course if you do not meet the target group requirements. Priority is given to participants employed at Danish research and health institutions or in the life science industry, but a number of seats are reserved for participants employed at research and health institutions or in the life science industry abroad. If the event is overbooked, DDEA reserves the right to select participants based on the defined requirements.

Dinner registration

DDEA will organise a networking dinner on 27 February 2024. Participation in the dinner is free of charge and optional. Please sign up for the dinner upon registration, and indicate whether you have any dietary requirements.

Accommodation

The DDEA offers 1-night accommodation (check-in on 27 February, check-out on 28 February) for participants coming from outside of Aarhus. Please sign up for accommodation when you register for the event. You will be informed about your overnight accommodation by DDEA after the registration deadline.

Certification

A course certificate will be sent to all participants upon request at the end of the course. Full participation is required to attain 1,4 ECTS points.

Latest cancellation date & no-show fee

Please note that it is free of charge to participate in the event however the DDEA will charge a no-show fee of 1000 DKK if you do not show up and have not unregistered from the event by 21 February 2024.