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How Best to Share Research with Study Participants? A Randomised Crossover Trial Comparing a Comic, Lay Summary, and Scientific Abstract

Kearns, C., Eathorne, A., Kearns, N., Anderson, A., Hatter, L., Semprini, A., & Beasley, R. (2022). How best to share research with study participants? A randomised crossover trial comparing a comic, lay summary, and scientific abstract. Journal of visual communication in medicine, 45(3), 172–181. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17453054.2022.2056321 ABSTRACT: Healthcare research is traditionally published in academic papers, coded in scientific… Read More »

Addressing Psychiatric Disorders and Genetics: The Meaningful Use of Comics for Health Information

Paixão Pequeno, D., Pequeno Galvão, L., & Lourenço, G. J. (2022). Addressing psychiatric disorders and genetics: the meaningful use of comics for health information. Journal of visual communication in medicine, 45(3), 154–159. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1080/17453054.2022.2029369 ABSTRACT: In the fields of healthcare and education, comics have shown considerable academic and teaching importance, with their combination of text and images. As… Read More »

No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics

Janina Wildfeuer, Ielka van der Sluis, Gisela Redeker & Nina van der Velden (2022) No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2053559 ABSTRACT: The study reported in this paper analyzes the specific genre of ‘instruction comics’ with regard to typical patterns of comic book pages. As a sequential-pictorial genre with… Read More »

‘The Time Is Out of Joint’: Temporality, COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., Joshi, I. A. (2022). ‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine. Medical Humanities 48:e15. Retrieved from https://mh.bmj.com/content/48/4/e15 ABSTRACT: This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium… Read More »

Graphic Medicine in Graduate Medical Education

Maatman, T., Green, M. J., & Noe; M. N. (2022). Graphic medicine in graduate medical education. J Grad Med Educ, 14 (1): 113–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-21-01107.1 ABSTRACT: The challenge is how to incorporate opportunities for self-expression, creativity, and potential community building into residency education. […] Graphic medicine, a field at the intersection of comics and health care, can… Read More »

Disease Information Through Comics: A Graphic Option for Health Education

Rakower, J., & Hallyburton, A. (2022). Disease Information Through Comics: A Graphic Option for Health Education. The Journal of medical humanities, 1–18. Advance online publication. doi-10.1007/s10912-022-09730-9 ABSTRACT: This paper presents a critical interpretive synthesis of research on the efficacy of comics in educating consumers on communicable diseases. Using this review methodology, the authors drew from empirical… Read More »

Comics and Medicine: Using Graphic Narratives in Pharmacy Education

Hoffman A. (2021). Comics and Medicine: Using Graphic Narratives in Pharmacy Education. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 8797. Advance online publication. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.5688/ajpe8797 ABSTRACT: Over the last decade, interest in comics as an educational tool has increased. Far from the roots of their superheroorigins, the artform of comics (also known as graphic novels) now includes a vast… Read More »