BEdR Featured Submission:

Drawing For Informed Consent

Type: Lecture, small group activity, and individual assignment
Authors: Kendra Kirchmer, MFA, Marin Gillis, LPh, PhD, Ryan Pham (MS 2021)
Institution: Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University

Summary:

Drawing is a form of communication. Physicians use it to understand medical concepts themselves and to explain treatments and conditions to patients. Yet it is not a skill commonly taught in academic medicine. To address this need, we created the Drawing for Informed Consent module to help medical students develop visual communication skills. The intervention focused on the role of drawing as a communication tool during the informed consent process. The interprofessional teaching team included professionals from the disciplines of design, the arts and medical ethics.

This module is applicable for undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education in any discipline that requires health communication.

Resource Components:

BEdR Submission: here

Materials: here

  • Lecture Slides

  • Small Group Activity

  • Sketching Aid

  • Assignment Handout

Samples from the Resource:

“The near-universal fluency of drawings to communicate ideas across language barriers and literacy levels makes them especially effective tools for our students and anytime communication and understanding are the goals. ”
— Drawing for Informed Consent: BEdR Submission

Screenshots of the web-based, self-facilitated, small group activity.


Citation:

Kirchmer K, Gillis M, Pham R. Drawing for Informed Consent. BEdR: Bioethics Education Resources [Online]. 2018;04:002. https://www.bedr.education/fr-dfic

Copyright:

© 2018 Kirchmer et al. This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.