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What Can Medical Education Learn from Comics?

Bradley, S, Mclean, R, Brewster, L. (2021). What can medical education learn from comics? Clin Teach.1– 4. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1111/tct.13427 ABSTRACT: Graphic medicine is the use of comics to communicate illness experiences. Recognition of its usefulness in medical education is growing, particularly in the United States, but explorations of how students engage with comics within medical curricula are lacking. Here, we report on… Read More »

The Many Fictions of Illness: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer

Ferraro A. J. (2021). The Many Fictions of Illness: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer. Literature and medicine, 39(2), 227–248. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0022 ABSTRACT: Recent studies of fictionality within narrative theory have emphasized the permeability between global fictions and nonfictions. That is, global nonfictions often deploy elements of local fictionality without compromising their global commitments. This paper… Read More »

Exploring the Impact of Online Graphic Narratives in Consumer Health Promotion: A Type 2 Diabetes Study.

Luna-Nevarez C. (2021). Exploring the impact of online graphic narratives in consumer health promotion: A type 2 diabetes study. Health marketing quarterly, 38(4), 315–333. DOI: 10.1080/07359683.2021.1947069 ABSTRACT: This research explores the use of online graphic narratives (a.k.a. comics) in consumer health promotion. More specifically, the study evaluates the persuasive power of online graphic narratives to communicate type 2… Read More »

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. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/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 »

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 »

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 »