Create your clinical presentation with the evidence on the slide.

Frequently asked questions

Clinical presentations, answered.

What is an evidence-based clinical presentation?

An evidence-based clinical presentation is a slide deck in which every clinical claim is traceable to a named source — a trial, guideline, or peer-reviewed paper — and where the deck states how strong that evidence is and where it runs out. EvidenceMD builds decks this way by design: it retrieves the literature before writing a single slide, keeps the retrieved documents, writes the slides only from them, and closes every deck with a Sources slide listing what it used, with links.

How does EvidenceMD create a clinical presentation?

You type a clinical topic, question, or comparison of up to 600 characters and choose an audience, a format, and an evidence depth. EvidenceMD then runs five visible stages: understanding the topic, searching the evidence base across more than 40 million peer-reviewed papers and clinical guidelines, structuring the deck, writing the slides, and formatting the presentation. The finished deck opens in a full-screen presenter view and downloads as a PDF or a PowerPoint file. Generation typically takes one to three minutes.

Are the citations in an EvidenceMD presentation real?

Yes. They are documents retrieved during the evidence pass, not references written from memory. Up to 20 retrieved sources are carried through to the deck's closing Sources slide with their titles, publishers, and links, so any claim can be checked against the document it came from. Body slides name trials in the prose and stay free of bracketed markers so they read cleanly when projected; the complete, linked evidence trail sits on the Sources slide.

Can I use it for grand rounds, journal club, or a conference talk?

Yes. Those are the formats it is built for. Choose Clinical Review for grand rounds and teaching sessions, Journal Club for critical appraisal of a single study, Case Discussion for morning report and case conferences, Research Review for evidence synthesis and lab meetings, or Learning for concepts and mechanisms. For accredited CME, route the deck through your provider's review as you would any faculty deck and add your disclosures and learning objectives; a deck whose literature is already named and linked is the documentation those committees ask for first.

Which audiences can a deck be written for?

Six: physician, nurse, physician assistant, medical student, medical researcher, and pharmacist. The audience sets the pitch and vocabulary; the format sets the arc; the evidence depth — Standard, In-depth, or Research-focused — sets how far the literature search reaches. The three are independent, so a Case Discussion can be aimed at a medical student or at an attending without changing the structure of the talk.

What formats can I download a presentation in?

PDF and PowerPoint (.pptx), both from the same 16:9 slide layout you see in the presenter view. The PDF is a vector document that renders identically on a lecture-hall laptop and as a handout. The PowerPoint export places each slide as a full-bleed picture on a 13.33 by 7.5 inch widescreen slide and puts the slide's text into the speaker notes, so it opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides and the wording stays searchable and copyable. You can also present straight from the browser with keyboard navigation and four colour themes.

How is this different from Gamma, Tome, or asking ChatGPT for slides?

The difference is where the content comes from. Gamma, Tome, and Beautiful.ai are design-first tools that turn text you supply into a well-composed deck; they do not retrieve medical literature, so the accuracy and attribution of every clinical claim remain with you. A general-purpose chatbot writes slides from model recall. EvidenceMD is a clinical system: a medical model fine-tuned for evidence-based chain-of-thought reasoning runs a retrieval pass over the peer-reviewed literature first, writes the slides from what it found, keeps the hierarchy of evidence visible, and lists the sources in the deck. The two categories complement each other — EvidenceMD settles the evidence, and a design tool can dress it in a brand template when your department requires one.

Does the deck say when the evidence is uncertain?

Yes, on purpose. Where trials disagree or a population was never studied, the deck says so rather than quietly picking an answer. The worked example on this page ends on exactly that kind of boundary: it reviews anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation with advanced kidney disease and closes by stating where the randomised evidence stops. A clinical deck that lands on the edge of the evidence, rather than past it, is one you can defend in the room.

Do I need to enter patient information?

No. The presentations workspace is topic-driven — you describe a clinical topic, not a patient — so protected health information stays out of the workflow by design. EvidenceMD is built with a HIPAA-aligned security posture, with data encrypted in transit and at rest and a Business Associate Agreement available for eligible plans. For teaching decks built around a real case, de-identify the case detail to your institution's standard before you present or circulate it.

How much does it cost, and can I see the output before paying?

Presentations are included with EvidenceMD yearly plans, with no per-deck charge. The worked example deck on this page is the real artefact: page through it, open it in the presenter, and download it as a PDF or PowerPoint without signing up. EvidenceMD itself is free to start, and the clinical reasoning and evidence search that power the presentation generator are available on the free tier. Check the pricing page for current plan details.

Should I check an AI-generated clinical deck before presenting it?

Yes — read every slide, as you would with any deck you did not write yourself, and EvidenceMD is designed to make that check fast rather than an act of faith. Read the Sources slide first and confirm the retrieved literature is the literature you would have chosen; open the source behind any claim that changes management; and check where the deck stops. EvidenceMD is clinical decision support that surfaces evidence and reasoning in support of a licensed clinician's judgment.