Educational Comic for Heart Transplant Patients
Narrative Medicine Program, Columbia University
Followup from Meeting 1: Planning – May 29
Link to our shared document.
On content: Educational comics best practices
- Read Graphic Public Health, Chapter 5, “Making Comics For Public Health and Information”
- Review Booster Shot Media website for examples of adult and pediatric educational comics
- And listen to this interview with one of the creators, Alex Thomas
- And read Are Comic Books Appropriate Health Education Formats to Offer Adult Patients?Ashwal & Thomas, 2018
- Health Education Comics Framework (Gary Ashwal, Jan 29 2024)
On form: Page layouts, Making Memoir, and Body Maps
- Two page spread layouts- examples from Danny Gregory
- Body Maps 2 – slides with many examples from graphic medicine texts
- Padlet as place to share work
- Beth Trembley on Memoir: The Many Faces of You
(I have videos of Beth Trembley teaching the content below if you are interested)
Follow up from meeting 2, June 14, 2024
Currently in the outreach phase of this project – connecting with people for interviews – anesthesia, surgery, nurse practitioner, ICU and step-down unit nurses, etc. AND for access to witnessing a surgery. Planning to video the actual interviews.
Mid-term assignment: poster for Ireland, presentation in Ireland
Questions for interview prep:
- are consent forms needed?
- what is your plan for getting feedback on interview transcripts/fact checking
- prepare questions in light of information needed for the comic
Issue in consideration/to research: How do these institutions address transition from child patient to adolescent patient to adult patient?
Following up resources:
- MK to go through entire zine collection for additional models/examples to share
Comics journalism resources:
- “Health Care Comics” zine by Josh Newfeld. Consider how he utilizes a comics journalism approach as you prepare to witness surgery
- Truth As We Draw It – a web primer on comics journalism
- Drawn Truth by Lukas Plank
- A Practical Guide to Comics Journalism by Emma Tram
Athlone, Ireland and beyond!
