ABSTRACT
Presenting a medical conference or delivering a medical talk before a professional audience provides the medical speaker with a unique opportunity to transfer useful information from his or her mind directly to the minds of a listening audience. Physicians who wish to be more effective in commanding the attention of medical audiences in order to move them toward the positions advocated by their spoken messages can accomplish this by learning and using the techniques developed for medical speaking. Organizing and writing the text for a medical talk follows a quite different format from that used for organizing and writing text for possible publication in a medical journal. The challenge facing medical speakers who wish to convert their material that has been written for a talk into a possible publication is to repackage the material from the talk into a form that is more suitable for possible publication in a medical journal.
