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The Use of Comics to Promote Health Awareness: A Template Using Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Alemany-Pagès, M., Azul, A. M., & Ramalho-Santos, J. (2022). The use of comics to promote health awareness: A template using nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. European journal of clinical investigation, 52(3), e13642. DOI: 10.1111/eci.13642 ABSTRACT: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) constitutes a major threat to public health systems worldwide on account of its widespread prevalence and increasing incidence. More… Read More »

How Comic Strips Create Better Health Care

Hester, S. (2021). How comic strips create better health care. TED.com. https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_hester_how_comic_strips_create_better_health_care ABSTRACT: Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient’s needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester shares how illustrating small details of… Read More »

Graphic Narrative Versus Journal Article for Teaching Medical Students About P Values: A Randomized Trial

Tigges, S., Krupinski, E., Luhanga, U., Schulman, D., & Risk, B. (2021). Graphic Narrative Versus Journal Article for Teaching Medical Students About P Values: A Randomized Trial. Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, S1546-1440(21)00237-4. Advance online publication. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2021.03.013 ABSTRACT: Understanding P values is difficult but essential for interpreting the medical literature. Graphic narratives (comics) facilitate… Read More »

Comics as Anti-racist Education and Advocacy

Obuobi, S., Vela, M. B., & Callender, B. (2021). Comics as anti-racist education and advocacy. The Lancet 397 (10285), 1615-1617. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00940-5. ABSTRACT: Academic medicine is increasingly recognising the importance of teaching about structural racism in medicine to help ameliorate racial health-care disparities. Yet such teaching can be challenging and, in some settings, considered controversial. Leveraging the power of… Read More »

Impact of an Educational Comic to Enhance Patient-Physician–Electronic Health Record Engagement: Prospective Observational Study

Alkureishi, M., Johnson, T., Nichols, J., Dhodapkar, M., Czerwiec, M. K., Wroblewski, K., Arora, V., & Lee, W. W. (2021). Impact of an educational comic to enhance patient-physician–electronic health record engagement: prospective observational study. JMIR Hum Factors 8(2):e25054. Retrieved from https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2021/2/e25054 ABSTRACT: Electronic health record (EHR) use can impede or augment patient-physician communication. However, little… Read More »

Comic Relief: Graphic Anthology Chronicles Fear, Uncertainty and Hope amid Pandemic’s Early Days

Rifkind, C. (2021). Comic relief: graphic anthology chronicles fear, uncertainty and hope amid pandemic’s early days. Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved from https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/comic-relief-574264732.html ABSTRACT: As we move into a possible third wave of COVID-19, the early days of the pandemic in spring 2020 are starting to feel like a distant past, when everything was in flux… Read More »

Reflections on Graphic Medicine and Medical Libraries

Torres, R. A. (2021). Reflections on Graphic Medicine and medical libraries. NNLM. Retrieved from https://news.nnlm.gov/psr-latitudes/graphic-medicine-reflections/ ABSTRACT: Diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), antiracism, and social justice are buzzwords in higher education and libraries right now. However, as a new graduate from San José State University’s School of Information, I am keenly aware that library and information science… Read More »