Showing posts with label graphic medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic medicine. Show all posts
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Monday, December 12, 2022
Being a Telepatient: A Short Comic for Health Literacy
Being a Telepatient is a recent comic from Dr. Nathan Gray, meant to help patients prepare for telehealth visits. He includes 10 tips for making the most of your next virtual visit.
Bonus: It's short and easy-to-digest.
May be of interest to clinical staff or anyone invested in health literacy.
Monday, September 20, 2021
How do vaccines work?
Want a simple explanation of what vaccines do inside your body to protect you from serious illness? Then check out this adorable short animation by Ask Ken Tay.
Coronavirus comics from University of Nebraska: meet Graffiti Mouse, Cat, and Professor Gray
Recently I ran across a post from McGoogan Health Science Library on a Coronavirus comics exhibit at their library. Happily I discovered access to these comics isn't limited as all are online, including a comic on C'rona from an indigenous perspective.
More on the online exhibit from the McGoogan News blog...
"In collaboration with virologists and artists, three comic stories about COVID-19 were developed during the pandemic and posted online during the last half of 2020. The fictional narratives address fundamental issues in biology, virology and network science in order to help readers understand the complexities of living through a viral pandemic.
The stories focus on three themes: the biology and social context of the COVID-19 virus; the relationship of wild animals, particularly bats, to the pandemic; and the impact of the pandemic on Tribal communities. The stories are posted online and are published by the University of Nebraska Press as the book “C’RONA Pandemic Comics,” which includes essays for youth about the virus and the pandemic.
- C’rona Comix, by Bob Hall, Judy Diamond and Liz VanWormer (meet Graffiti Mouse, Cat, and Professor Gray)
- Tribal C’rona Comix, by Henry Payer, Hall, Judi gaiashkibos and Diamond
- C’rona Comix II, by Hall, Bob Camp, VanWormer and Diamond
“Tribal” features the story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte, MD, who also is featured in an exhibit in the Wigton Heritage Center."
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Health & Wealth: A Graphic Guide to the US Health Care System
The Center for Cartoon Studies presents
The goal of this concise and engaging 32-page [digital] comic is to provide a baseline understanding of the healthcare system so people can feel a little less intimidated by its complexity and cruelty, and more empowered to advocate for themselves and those they care for.
We hope Health and Wealth will generate discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform.
With a Richard Scary aesthetic that will be familiar to many, Health & Wealth includes:
- Resources for Further Reading (page 27)
- An Engagement Guide (page 28) with
- Questions for Personal Reflection
- Group Discussion Questions
- Activities
- What's Your Game
- Personal Healthcare Directory
- Glossary (page 29)
WHO MADE THIS COMIC?
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University are supporting this project. CCS director/co-founder and 2020-21 Radcliffe Fellow James Sturm is leading a team that includes scholars, healthcare professionals, cartoonist Kazimir Lee ’16, and Harvard and CCS students.
Monday, April 26, 2021
Comic: Coping with pandemic numbness
Why do we feel numb in the face of overwhelming tragedy? NPR'S Connie Hanzhang Jin made this comic to explain "psychic numbing" and how to cope with it.
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| Comic by Connie Hanzhang Jin |
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Professional Development Award Report: Midwest Chapter/MLA 2019 Deborah Ruck
Midwest Chapter/MLA &
WHSLA & SWHSL Annual Meeting
I attended the Midwest
Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting in October 2019 with the generous financial support
of a $500 WHSLA stipend award. This was one of the best Midwest Chapter
Meetings I have ever attended because of the timeliness of the program and
poster topics, authoritative and interesting speakers, diversity of exhibitors,
and excellent conference venue.
In this blog post I would
like to focus on two of the presentations I attended.
Keynote Address
The Keynote address given by MK
Czerwiec, RN, MA aka Comic Nurse, was illuminating and moving. She
spoke of how she began drawing as a way to cope with her grief after one of her
AIDs patients died. Since then MK has authored 8 graphic medicine comic
books and is currently working on an anthology of comics about menopause to be
published in Spring 2020 and a graphic medicine memoir about caring for her
mother and aunt.
MK explained that comics are
used because of the effectiveness of the medium as a powerful teaching/learning
tool when there is a high density of information, a high level of importance,
and high stress involved. Storytelling in this way can help us heal, move
past barriers, and bear witness to other’s stories. For example, see Mom’s
Cancer, Marbles,
and My
Degeneration. MK is the co-manager of GraphicMedicine.org,
a site that provides links to author and artist sites, online articles, comic
sites, blogs, comic reviews, podcasts, conference information and much more.
Social Determinants of
Health: From the Patient to the Community and Beyond Panel Presentation
Anne
Getzin, MD, a family physician with Advocate Aurora Health, gave a very
passionate presentation, Health Equity and the Patient Experience, about
her experiences providing prenatal care and delivery of babies via the Aurora
Midtown Health Center near 60th and Capitol in Milwaukee. She
stressed the importance of providing equitable
healthcare at the level of need required. She mentioned the American
Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) The
Everyone Project which “focuses on providing family physicians and their
practice teams with education and resources, advocating for health equity,
promoting workforce diversity, and collaborating with other disciplines and
organizations to advance health equity.”
Dr. Getzin said that her
patients experience bias all of the time in their lives. Her patients
have conditions such as hypoglycemia, hypertension, and lead poisoning.
She is doing a research study on the impact of lead exposure during pregnancy
and advocates for the necessity of testing women for lead poisoning.
She does centering
pregnancy and parenting programs, which are 2-hour doctor visits in a group
setting at a local Family Resource Center. They talk about health
maintenance topics to help decrease the numbers of low birthweight babies and
infant mortality. Often the group meetings result in the women supporting
each other in ways she could never do. For example, a mother provided her
cell phone number to another mother who had difficulty affording baby formula
and told her to call at any time for help rather than considering stealing
formula from a grocery store. The Family Resource Center has a food
pantry; they also screen for food insecurity and provide $20 vouchers for the
Fondy Farmers Market nearby.
Deborah Ruck
Information Resources Librarian
Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries
Monday, December 23, 2019
2020 MLA webinars - a sneak peak
Thanks to Kathy Koch for sharing this sneak peek at MLA's upcoming 2020 webinars.
January 15
Applying the ACRL Information Literacy Framework to Your Teaching If you teach or plan to teach, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Framework threshold concepts will help you promote deep learning for your students. Threshold concepts are the ideas in any discipline that are passageways to enlarged understanding or ways of thinking and practicing in the discipline.
February 13
Basic Statistics for Research Appraisal You do not need to take years of statistics to gain a significant amount of useful knowledge. With a basic understanding of the core concepts and principles of statistics, you will gain the confidence and skills to tackle a wide range of statistics questions. You will also be able to assess the quality and value of research, locate specific methodological papers, and communicate research conclusions to users.
April 15
Make Fun of Learning! Game-Based Learning for Student Success If you are looking to spruce up your classroom and engage students on a deep level, then game-based learning may be for you. This course will explore game-based learning and make game makers out of every participant!
June
Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are at the top of evidence pyramids, but not all are high in quality. Learn the steps of critically evaluating these types of review articles and gain tips on teaching critical appraisal in small and large group settings.
July 8
Find the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Search Strategy That Works for You Some online searchers use problem, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) to formulate their search strategy. Others use population, exposure, outcome (PEO); sample, phenomena of interest, design, evaluation, research type (SPIDER); who, when, what, where, why (5Ws); or just ask: “What has happened and what am I going to do about it?” This webinar runs searches through these formulations so that participants can select the method most comfortable for them.
August 11
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Peer Review: For Reviewers and Authors This webinar aims to empower health sciences librarians to perform excellent peer reviews and write articles that pass peer review. You will learn about the Journal of the Medical Library Association’s (JMLA’s) peer review process, the importance of peer reviewers to research in our field, and ways to find your strengths as a peer reviewer and an author.
August 18
Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship Graphic medicine, the intersection of health care and comics, has emerged over the last ten years as a growing field in the health sciences, particularly in relation to health humanities and education. Librarians can play a vital role in supporting graphic medicine by collecting and distributing graphic medicine materials and including graphic medicine in their work or instruction efforts. In this webinar, we will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how you can start collecting graphic medicine at your library, and how you can integrate it into your work in the library.
September
Systematic Searching: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency Are you struggling with ever-more complicated systematic review searches? Do you have a basic knowledge of Boolean operators, thesaurus terms, and syntax and want to raise your search game? This webinar will give you guidance on creating high-quality searches in a faster way. Bramer and associates have taught his method at several filled-to-capacity annual meeting courses.
2020
Monthly Webinars MLA is pleased to present the first nine 2020 MLA webinars. Every quarter, we will add three more webinars. This allows us to open up more opportunities for MLA members and others to submit great webinars!
January 15
Applying the ACRL Information Literacy Framework to Your Teaching If you teach or plan to teach, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Framework threshold concepts will help you promote deep learning for your students. Threshold concepts are the ideas in any discipline that are passageways to enlarged understanding or ways of thinking and practicing in the discipline.
February 13
Basic Statistics for Research Appraisal You do not need to take years of statistics to gain a significant amount of useful knowledge. With a basic understanding of the core concepts and principles of statistics, you will gain the confidence and skills to tackle a wide range of statistics questions. You will also be able to assess the quality and value of research, locate specific methodological papers, and communicate research conclusions to users.
April 15
Make Fun of Learning! Game-Based Learning for Student Success If you are looking to spruce up your classroom and engage students on a deep level, then game-based learning may be for you. This course will explore game-based learning and make game makers out of every participant!
June
Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are at the top of evidence pyramids, but not all are high in quality. Learn the steps of critically evaluating these types of review articles and gain tips on teaching critical appraisal in small and large group settings.
July 8
Find the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Search Strategy That Works for You Some online searchers use problem, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) to formulate their search strategy. Others use population, exposure, outcome (PEO); sample, phenomena of interest, design, evaluation, research type (SPIDER); who, when, what, where, why (5Ws); or just ask: “What has happened and what am I going to do about it?” This webinar runs searches through these formulations so that participants can select the method most comfortable for them.
August 11
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Peer Review: For Reviewers and Authors This webinar aims to empower health sciences librarians to perform excellent peer reviews and write articles that pass peer review. You will learn about the Journal of the Medical Library Association’s (JMLA’s) peer review process, the importance of peer reviewers to research in our field, and ways to find your strengths as a peer reviewer and an author.
August 18
Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship Graphic medicine, the intersection of health care and comics, has emerged over the last ten years as a growing field in the health sciences, particularly in relation to health humanities and education. Librarians can play a vital role in supporting graphic medicine by collecting and distributing graphic medicine materials and including graphic medicine in their work or instruction efforts. In this webinar, we will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how you can start collecting graphic medicine at your library, and how you can integrate it into your work in the library.
September
Systematic Searching: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency Are you struggling with ever-more complicated systematic review searches? Do you have a basic knowledge of Boolean operators, thesaurus terms, and syntax and want to raise your search game? This webinar will give you guidance on creating high-quality searches in a faster way. Bramer and associates have taught his method at several filled-to-capacity annual meeting courses.
This
information is accurate as of December 2019. MLA reserves the right to alter
topics, content, and scheduling.
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