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The Peter James Burns Scholarship Fund

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Our journeys to Graphic Medicine and our research communities may vary, but those of us who come to this community, both in-person and virtually, have by now come to share an understanding of what Graphic Medicine is and how it is relevant to our everyday lives.   When our colleague in Ireland, Jane Burns, initially started working on her PhD, she was focused on Medical Humanities and Archives as her research area. Being diagnosed with uterine cancer months prior to commencing her PhD put things on hold.  Her husband and both of her children were obviously worried, but it was… Read More

Drawing Together #46: (RE)Turning

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The Drawing Together community convened again on Sunday, January 29.Our session was led by Shelley Wall and our theme was (RE)TURNING.Shelley Wall is an associate professor in the Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto. She is a medical illustrator, a Graphic Medicine International Collective board member, and a keen student of all things related to visual art in healthcare. Shelley began the session and gave us a warm up exercise: Spirals. Then Shelley introduced our theme and main exercise: Anniversaries.   And finally, we added to our first drawing. If you would like to share your drawings, please use #DrawingTogetherGM… Read More

Spotlight: The White Horse

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A Tale of Fear and Loneliness by Debra May Silver The White Horse is a unique hand illustrated book that takes you on a powerful, visual journey of dark thoughts, emotions and brings focus to the physical and mental burden of living with anxiety in the modern world.   You can acquire The White Horse from her website at www.shipstreetpoetry.com. Debra May Silver self-published her debut collection of poetry “My Rabid Fucking Soul” in 2019 & has since self-published “Rise Up Rabid Souls” an anthology of poetry & art as well as “The White Horse” a graphic novel. She is the founder… Read More

Spotlight: Diagnosketch

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Diagnosketch is a colorful, visual book that helps explain medical diagnoses to a non-medical audience. It simplifies human anatomy and pathophysiology into memorable, patient-friendly, understandable images. It conveys complicated medical concepts quickly and effectively. Diagnosketch includes 100+ images of common diagnoses seen in an acute care setting. Kidney stones. Diverticulitis. Gallstones. Ovarian cysts. Medical professionals use Diagnosketch to better communicate with patients in various settings, like Emergency Rooms, Urgent Care Clinics and Primary Care Offices. Over the past 20 years of clinical practice in the ER, I have been creating images to explain medical diagnoses for my patients. As both… Read More

Spotlight: VEOLI

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Graphic Medicine doesn’t always take the form of a book: sometimes it can be a collaboration. This is the case for the Visualizing End of Life Issues group (VEOLI). This international group of graphic recorders, artists, facilitators, death doulas, grief specialists, and authors have practiced listening to people describe their end-of-life thinking and, in real-time, capture these thoughts by making drawings and using words.  Members of VEOLI have devoted over a year to creating and fine-tuning a process for leading people through a journey to capture their thoughts and feelings about their dying and death. Undertaking the very personal experience… Read More

Graphic Medicine Podcast Survey

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The Graphic Medicine team is sprucing up the Graphic Medicine Podcast. The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) has set up a committee to expand the podcast! We would like your help! The listeners matter the most. We want to know what you want to listen to. Do you listen to the podcast? Great! Can you give us some ideas about how to make it even better? You don’t listen to the podcast? That’s fine, too. What might make you give it a try? Fill out the Graphic Medicine Podcast survey with your thoughts, ideas and listening habits. You can also… Read More

CFP: Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis

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Call for Papers Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis A Special Issue of American Imago Edited by Vera J. Camden and Valentino L. Zullo   The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us that the nineteenth-century photographs of hysteria captured… Read More