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Home / medical education

Comics on Rounds: A Story from Anesthesia

Sep. 26, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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guest post by Michael Green Comics are beginning to have a real world impact on the training of physicians. When I first started to teach comics to medical students, I dreamed that some day, a physician would pull out a comic during clinical rounds to make an important teaching point to his or her trainees. It seems that’s actually taking place now. A former medical student of mine who is now doing a residency in Anesthesiology just shared the following experience: I just wanted to tell you a cool story about the great impact your work is having. I was… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Health Education, Uncategorized Tags: Annals of Internal Medicine, medical education, medical errors, medical mistakes, Michael Green, Missed It, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine

Michael Green’s Comics Course at Penn State Hershey

Jun. 12, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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Two new pieces that feature Michael Green’s work at Penn State Hershey. First, a blog post from his class’s visiting comic artist, JT Waldman. Dr. Michael Green, the svelte bespectacled professor who invites me each year to his class at Penn State College of Medicine, greets me along the train tracks as he normally does. Michael has had me guest teach his Graphic Storytelling & Medical Narratives course for the last few years. We met back in 2009, when I did some workshops at his local community center. Since then, Dr. Green has tasked me to help his students develop their… Read More

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: comics, Graphic Medicine, jt waldman, medical education, Michael Green, Penn State Hershey

New Podcast: Studio Time in the Literature & Medicine Classroom

Dec. 5, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. This panel from Toronto, “Studio Time in the Literature and Medicine Classroom,” features Susan Squier, Tess Jones, and Scott Smith. They write of their panel, “We will present our experiences introducing ‘studio time’–a time dedicated to creating our own comics (text and images)–into classes that are customarily occupied with discussing comics, either as examples of literature or as modes of communication in health care settings. After brief paper, we answer questions and encourage discussion and comments among… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Medicine Podcast, Podcast, Toronto 2012 Tags: comics, Denver, medical education, medical humanities, medicine, Penn State, Scott Smith, studio time, Susan Squier, Tess Jones, University of Colorado

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