MedPhys SLAM

The MedPhys Slam competition gives students and trainees the opportunity to enhance their public speaking and scientific communication skills by having them present their projects in 3 minutes or less to a general, non-scientific audience.

The national competition is held yearly during the AAPM Annual Meeting. We hold a regional MedPhys Slam competition, typically in May, to select our mid-Atlantic representative for the national event. The winner of the MACAAPM MedPhys slam receives free conference registration to the national meeting and gets to participate in the competition. For more information about MedPhys slam rules click here.

MedPhys SLAM Event

Dear Student, Resident, and Junior AAPM members:

MedPhys Slam is a research communication competition in which participants prepare a three-minute, three-slide presentation aimed at sharing the significance of their work in a compelling yet understandable manner to a non medical physics audience. Participants submit video presentations to their local AAPM chapter, from which a finalist will be selected to represent the chapter at the AAPM national meeting. Presentations will be judged on three equally weighted categories: comprehension/content, communication, and engagement. The presentations can be posted on social media outlets like Facebook and a dedicated YouTube Channel.

These 3-minute, 3-slide presentations are very fun and a great way to practice presenting your research to a non-physicist audience.  We encourage all interested participants to send their video presentations to macaapm@gmail.com no later than May 11, 2025.

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