general introduction Part 1 organizing an international medical conference 1 pre-conference stage 11 organizational information 12 conference announcement 13 invitation letters 14 conference handout 2 conference stage 21 opening remarks 22 useful sentence patterns for closing address 23 useful sentence patterns for moderator 3 post-conference stage 31 financial services 32 conference analysis 33 program wrap-up and reporting 34 thanks from organizers Part 2 attending an international medical conference 1 obtaining conference information 11 channels of obtaining information 12 writing an academic conference paper 13 correspondence before conference 2 oral presentation 21 speech preparation 22 design of overhead transparencies 23 speech delivery 24 structure of speech 25 question and answer session 3 poster session 31 introduction of poster presentation 32 elements of a poster 33 poster design 34 poster presentation 35 sample dialogues 4 correspondence after conference 41 samples 42 functional sentence patterns appendix channels of obtaining medical conference information