How do I keep my case presentation under 25 minutes? Use the document as your cheat sheet. The reason presentations run long is that you are improvising the order, doubling back, and re-explaining things, which is what happens when the only plan lives in your head or on an itemized printout. A case report fixes the timing because it is already laid out in a logical sequence that flows from the patient's problem to the solution. You follow it like a track. It keeps you on the rails and keeps you honest about not wandering into clinical tangents the patient did [...]