http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?

id=1408176
Author: Steve Mandel
Title: Effective presentation skills a practical guide for better speaking
Date: 2000

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.00233.x/full
Author: Richard J. Haber, Lorelei A. Lingard PhD
Title: Learning Oral Presentation Skills
Date: 2001

https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article-abstract/57/4/370/455329/SpeakEasy-online-
support-for-oral-presentation
Author: Monica Hill, Anne Storey
Title: SpeakEasy: online support for oral presentation skills
Date: 2003

Learning Oral Presentation Skills

In this article, Haber wants to address the skills of oral presentation in a medical
setting with patient-physician communication. He begins by stating that these skills are not
studied about and there is little known. The relationship between physicians and patients has
been under speculation more than a physician-physician relationship. He explains that this
relationship has not been studied. He explains his previous thoughts: previous studies have
described some of the language characteristics and socializing effects of oral discourse among
physicians, they have not analyzed how these skills are learned or taught. Haber discusses
the study of communication in terms of context and explores the action of language on
knowledge, attitudes and values. Haber has a goal to greater the understanding of physician-
physician communication.
Haber conducted a study in which twelve third year medical students were observed
within their clinical trials. Students were broken up into small groups and observed. Haber
adds that they were informed that they would be watching for how students adjust to the
clerkship; but, were not notified that the interest was in their communication skills. Haber
found that students presented information in the same fashion as a written record. These
students were asked a medical question on how they would handle a patient situation. Haber
observed that students became flustered and they resorted back to a textbook answer rather
than an opinion. Physicians were observed on their interactions and Haber saw that they
communicate in a more open way. One of the observed physicians stated that the hardest
thing about this [oral presentation] is that there is this very rigorous form, but the people
who are really good at it don't use itthey just converse. So there's this structure that we
learn and that I'm using to present my patient, but they want me to pop in and out of it.
Haber concludes with his findings that the current process of teaching and learning oral
presentation within the medical field is strict and it can get in the way of a physicians values
and alter their performance.