BMJ 2008;336:1252 (31 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.515845.59
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Campaign for real lectures
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary health care, University College London
p.greenhalgh@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
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I recently decided that I had been on the receiving end of death by PowerPoint one too many times. I have probably also dished out my share of worthy, overly structured lists of bullet points to glazed, uninterested audiences. So I’m starting the campaign for real lectures.
Last month someone bet that I couldn’t talk for 45 minutes on the state of primary health care in the world using only slides of pictorial images. I gave my lecture last week, and we’re still arguing about who won the bet (which rests on whether I was allowed to use text in my summary slide). That apart, I think I pulled it off. I read from a typed script (written in full paragraphs) and linked each theme to an image (or three). In total I showed 94 photographs, five diagrams, three pieces of abstract art, two maps, and a graph. Afterwards, someone
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