Episode 2: Reviving the medical lecture: practical tips for delivering effective lectures

This month’s “RAPM Focus” looks at evidence-based practices to improve the creation and delivery of medical education lectures. Editor-in-Chief Brian Sites, MD, interviews Monica W. Harbell, MD, first author of the paper “Reviving the medical lecture: practical tips for delivering effective lectures,” published in the March 2022 issue of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine (https://rapm.bmj.com/content/47/5/331). In the paper, Dr. Harbell and coauthor Dr. Patricia S. O’Sullivan outline nine specific tips for effective presentations including the importance of learning objectives, content organization, effective visuals, simple slide design, and others. They also provide tips to keep your audience interested and engaged, particularly in an increasingly virtual world.

Dr. Harbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the associate program director for the Mayo Clinic Arizona Anesthesiology residency. She is the chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Patient Safety and Education and a member of the ASA committee on practice parameters.