Prospective Speaker Guide

Positive PreMeds hopes to engage its members in a breadth of medical topics including but not limited to broadening their knowledge of healthcare, expanding on the journey to pursuing a career in healthcare, presenting strategies to manage self-love & mental health, and emphasizing greater healthcare access as well as increased equity and diversity for the medical team & patients. We hope to feature speakers from diverse backgrounds and welcome pre-medical students, physicians, nurses, physician’s assistants, teachers, researchers, and anyone involved in healthcare/medicine to communicate their perspectives and experiences.

Each speaker presents for an allotted time and meeting attendees can then ask any questions as well as interact with the speakers.

THE BASICS | GENERAL INFORMATION

What platforms can I present on?

Our speakers can choose to present on zoom, in-person at the UIUC campus, or present using both platforms. Depending on our speaker’s comfort level and choice, we set up the desired platform & communicate the respective locations and/or links shortly after.

If there are presentation slides or videos that you would like us to share from our end during the presentation or beforehand, please send them to our email so we have them accessible.

How does my presentation have to be structured & how long does it have to be?

As an organization, we value our speaker’s opinions, perspectives, and creative freedoms therefore we don’t have any set-in-stone structure. With that being said, some common presentations are Ted-Talk style, PowerPoint presentations, or discussion-based presentations.

Following our theme of authenticity, there is no time limit minimum. The presentation can be as short or long as you would like. However, we will reserve a one-hour minimum time slot to ensure that we have our reserved spaces allocated

Common Topics/Ideas To Discuss?

What’s a common misconception in medicine you’d love to clear up?

What is something in healthcare that you would like to change or see improved?

What has your career trajectory been & what are some pros and cons?

How have you balanced your mental health within your career & personal life? Have you had any struggles with this?

What are your opinions about burnout in the medical field?

just some ideas but please do not feel limited or obligated to follow these points!

How does scheduling work?

We will schedule you out months in advance at your time convenience to ensure that it is the best time for both parties. Generally, we do hold our speaker events in the evenings on weekdays. We will also have an RSVP form for our members to provide a gauge of the audience.

We plan to advertise our speakers on our social media pages as well as website after we have the dates confirmed.

In the event that you have to reschedule or cancel, please contact our email address (positivepremedsxuiuc@gmail.com) at least 24 hours in advance.

FEATURING OUR SPEAKERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

We would love to feature our prospective speakers on our website and social media pages. With that being said, we have an ask that our speakers fill out the form below with some information about themselves and provide us a picture for the aforementioned platforms. We greatly appreciate it! Thank you.

Prospective Speaker Info. Form

Interested in being a guest speaker?

If you are interested in being a guest speaker for our organization please send us an email (positivepremedsxuiuc@gmail.com) and someone will be in touch shortly!