About this design
Where the Grand Rounds style comes from, and what it signals.
Grand Rounds follows the case report order you already present in: presentation, workup, differential, hospital course, teaching points. It skips stethoscope clipart and stock photos of doctors. The design comes from two objects you see on every ward, the ECG strip and the lab flowsheet.
Headings and structure sit in navy #14213d on white, with cool #f2f5f9 panels. Red #c8102e means abnormal and nothing else. A high potassium or a heart rate of 48 turns red with an H or L flag, so your audience sees the finding before you point at it. The deck runs in Public Sans with tabular numerals, so lab values and vitals line up in columns you can read from the back row.
Use it for morning report, M and M, journal-club cases and student presentations. A millimeter-grid ECG strip with a navy trace opens the deck and tops the vitals panel. Every footer carries a de-identified case note, a standing reminder to keep patient identifiers off the slides.
Use it for
- Internal medicine and pediatrics grand rounds case presentations
- Morning report and morbidity and mortality conference slides
- Medical student and resident case presentations with labs and vitals
- Pharmacology or toxicology cases that turn on a lab trend
- Nursing and allied health case studies with a day-by-day timeline
Skip it for
- Basic science or thesis talks built on figures and methods; Seminar suits the academic lecture format
- Pharma or healthcare investor pitches with big market numbers; Term Sheet or Runway suit that audience
- Patient education sessions for the public, where a warmer deck helps; Trailhead is easier to follow
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Grand Rounds' theme, a clinical case presentation in case-report order. Background: white (#ffffff) on every slide; panels in #f2f5f9; rules and table lines 1px #d5dde8. Typography: 'Public Sans' (Google Fonts) throughout, with tabular numerals (font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums) for every value. Headings bold 26 to 30px in navy #14213d, left-aligned, stating the finding, not the topic; body 13 to 15px in #2f3b52; labels, units and reference ranges 11 to 12px in #6b7890. Color rule: red #c8102e means abnormal, always. Flagged lab values, out-of-range vitals and bradycardic or tachycardic readings get red text plus an 'H' or 'L' flag; nothing else is ever red. The signature motif is an ECG-paper strip: a pale #fff7f8 band with a millimeter grid of 1px #f6d5da lines every 8px and bold 1px #eaa3ad lines every 40px, carrying a thin navy #14213d PQRST trace drawn as an SVG polyline. Use it full-bleed across the title slide and as a thin strip atop the vitals panel, never behind text. Every content slide opens with a section tab top-left naming the case step ('Presentation', 'Workup', 'Differential', 'Course', 'Teaching points') in 13px semibold navy with a 2px navy underline, sentence case, and the conference name in 11px #6b7890 top-right. Title slide: conference name and date, the case as a one-line vignette in bold 48 to 52px navy ('A 58-year-old with exertional syncope'), the ECG strip, then presenter, training level and discussant. Presentation slide: the chief complaint as a large quote in the patient's words, a short history of present illness, and a vitals panel of five values (HR, BP, RR, SpO2, temperature) in 34px bold numerals with units beneath, separated by 1px vertical rules, not cards. Labs slide: a table of test, result, flag, reference range and units with a 2px navy header rule and right-aligned results. Differential slide: a ranked list 1 to 5 with a thin likelihood bar per diagnosis (navy #14213d for the leading one, #9aa9bf for the rest) and 'For' and 'Against' findings on the same row. Course slide: a day-by-day timeline on a 2px navy axis with a #3f7cac trend line above and abnormal readings as red dots. Teaching points: three parallel lessons each with a 3px navy left rule, plus references in Vancouver style in a #f2f5f9 panel. Footer on every slide: 1px #d5dde8 rule, 'De-identified case' with presenter and service in 10px #6b7890 bottom-left, page number bottom-right. Strictly avoid: patient names, birth dates, record numbers or photos, stock photos of doctors, stethoscope or pill clipart, 3D anatomy, teal gradients, red for anything but abnormal findings, shadowed card grids, centered paragraphs, bullet walls and emoji.
Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHubHow to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Grand Rounds deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Grand Rounds on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Grand Rounds presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Grand Rounds presentation design prompt in practice.
