Creative Activity
Learning how to create a daily visual diary is a second class activity. Students write and draw in a composition book aimed at self-reflection, and share some of their entries during subsequent class discussions. It’s a great way for them to become more careful observers of the world, and promotes habits of awareness, reflection, and documentation. To draw their first entry in their visual daily diaries, students watch Lynda Barry’s “Six Minute Diary” video, use the handout “Keeping a Daily Diary,”
Drawing Health Care Providers
Students draw various health care providers using the Nine-Panel Template
Readings
- Olmsted, Taylor. “The Taming of Tina.” 2012.
- Lavin, Shane. “Whatever Floats Your Boat.” 2014.
- Natter, Michael. “Annals Graphic Medicine - Code Blue.” Annals of Internal Medicine April 4, 2017.
- Whyte, Noelle. “HMC Safari Adventure.” 2013.
- George, D. R. and Michael J. Green. “Lessons Learned From Comics Produced by Medical Students: Art of Darkness.” JAMA December 8, 2015; 314(22):2345–2346. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.13652.
- Green, Michael J. “Comics and Medicine: Peering into the Process of Professional Identity Formation.” Academic Medicine June 2015; 90(6):774–9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000703.