A New Student-led Digital Drawing Course: An Initiative to Bridge Patient Health Literacy Through Medical Illustrations

Health literacy and health inequity have emerged as significant issues facing the medical community. Despite in-depth explanations and language translation services, many patients fail to comprehend medical concepts and proposed surgical treatments. Our study aimed to evaluate how an instructional course on digital drawing would impact the likelihood of medical students to utilize medical illustrations in inpatient encounters.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Surgical Education Source Type: research