Twelve tips for making case presentations more interesting

Abstract

A common method of presenting cases is to provide a passive audience with patient information that has been analyzed and synthesized and with all conclusions drawn so that the audience is not required to think or participate in any way. This paper presents 12 tips for a more active and interesting method which follows the line of reasoning in which clinicians engage. Each step is followed by an example taken from a real case presentation given by a psychiatry resident.