Fireside chats, panel discussions and slide decks at medical conferences. Typically, most presentations in conferences are in the form of PowerPoint decks. While this works very well, because it allows the speaker to provide a lot of information to the audience, this can also be very boring especially when the speaker has not taken the time and trouble to prepare a good deck. There are also lots of good speakers who don't need a deck when talking, but few people can pull this off, because they don't have the confidence and skills to do this.
This is why panel discussions have become so popular because speakers don't need to spend too much time preparing for them. Also, because there are many people speaking, the audience gets to hear multiple perspectives. The problem is that panellists don’t bother to prepare; one person may monopolize the conversation; and when there are too many…
