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
Graphic Pharmacy
Via friend of Graphic Medicine Paula Knight, a graphic study of the perceived minds of community pharmacists while working. Error Girl, aka Hannah Family, is a third year PhD student at the University of Bath. Her research team is looking into the relationship between mental workload and medication dispensing errors. As part of their study, they are asking community pharmacists to fill out this blank brain template as a means of self-reporting what is on the pharmacist’s mind whilst working on filling scripts. This is another fascinating medical project utilizing knowing-through-drawing. I would love to see this kind of research… Read More