About
Presenting Science with Confidence: High-Impact Oral Presentations for Scientific and Medical Audiences
In scientific and medical settings, a strong oral presentation can influence decisions, shape perceptions, and determine whether your work is understood, trusted, and remembered.
Yet many presentations fail not because the science is weak, but because the message is unclear, overly dense, or poorly delivered.
This course is designed to help scientists and medical professionals communicate with clarity, authority, and confidence when speaking to an audience.
It focuses on the spoken dimension of communication: how to structure a compelling narrative, emphasise key messages, adapt to different audiences, and deliver complex content clearly and convincingly.
Beyond slides, participants will learn how voice, pacing, body language, and interaction shape understanding and credibility.
Through practical exercises and guided feedback, the course provides concrete tools that can be immediately applied to conference talks, internal presentations, advisory boards, teaching sessions, and stakeholder meetings.
Programme
- Why oral presentations matter in scientific and medical decision-making
- Defining your objective and core message
- Structuring a clear and persuasive oral narrative
- Planning and structuring longer or more complex presentations, from full conference talks to data-heavy content
- Adapting tone and depth for different audiences and contexts
- Speaking clearly: language, emphasis, and pacing
- Voice, posture, and presence
- Managing nerves and speaking with confidence
- Handling questions, challenges, and interruptions
- Common mistakes in scientific oral presentations and how to avoid them
- Practical exercises: short oral presentations with structured feedback, with guidance on applying the same approach to longer, more complex talks
- Q&A
This course is aimed at professionals who regularly present scientific or medical information, including medical writers, scientific communicators, researchers, clinicians, medical advisors, medical science liaisons, PhD students, and professionals involved in medical education or research dissemination.
Participant experience
No formal training in public speaking is required.
The course is suitable both for those who feel uncomfortable presenting and for experienced speakers who want to improve clarity, confidence, and impact.
Highly interactive training combining short theory blocks with practical exercises, live delivery practice, individual and group feedback, and guided discussion.
Active participation is encouraged throughout.
Lecturers
Arianna Ferrini
Dr Arianna Ferrini is a freelance medical writer and science communicator. She holds a PhD in Tissue Engineering and an MRes in Biomedical Research and Cardiovascular Sciences from Imperial College London (UK), an MSc in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and a BSc in Biotechnology from the University of Florence (Italy). She is the Director of Communications of the Association of Italian Scientists in the UK (AISUK) and the chair of the European Section of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-EU). She holds a certificate for “Writing in the Science” from Stanford University (USA), a “Foundational Skills for Communicating about Health” certificate from the University of Michigan (USA) and a Diploma in Editing and Proofreading from the Centre of Excellence (UK). She has published more than 10 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Advanced Materials.
After 12+ years of biomedical research experience in the UK, Italy and the USA, in 2020, she translated her technical knowledge and passion for communication into solutions for the medical and scientific community and the wider public. She specialises in Medical Education and works with clients worldwide, offering independent medical writing and science communication consulting services to businesses and individuals that want to capture valuable and meaningful insights from scientific data and spread the message to ultimately translate new research findings into healthcare solutions. Her clients include Johnson & Johnson, Langland, OLM Diagnostics, EPG Health, Regeneus, FirstWord Pharma, Editage and Edanz. As part of her work, she delivers interactive workshops and webinars to academic institutions and organisations covering scientific writing, publication processes and science communication strategies for different audiences.
This online training consists of 1 module:
16 June 2027 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm CEST
Some days before the online training you will receive all details about the connection.
The course will proceed with a minimum number of participants. Should this number not be reached the registered participants will be notified one week prior to the commencement of the course.
Early Bird: € 495,00* (until 28 May 2027)
Ordinary: € 610,00*
Freelance – Individual – Academy – Public Administration: € 390,00*
* for Italian companies: +22% VAT
The fee includes: tuitions, organizational office assistance, teaching materials and attendance certificate that will be sent after the training via e-mail.
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Accepted payment methods: Bank Transfer, Credit Card, PayPal.
Printable Version
At the end of the training, you will be able to
Online interactive training on Zoom platform.
LS Academy will provide the access link to the virtual platform a few days before the training.