Noah Siegel, Cassandra Lee, Brandon Oddo, Anthony Robinson, Lucy Xia, Jill Grimes, Jonathan J Wisco
Effective communication is a crucial component of patient-centered care and individuals with low health literacy face significant challenges in managing their health, leading to longer hospital stays and worse outcomes. Visual aids, such as medical illustrations and pictograms, can enhance patient understanding and memory retention; however, there is a lack in the medical field of tools for evaluating and improving a physician's ability to draw clinical illustrations for their patient. This article explores an aesthetic scale created in collaboration between Boston University Medical School and the Boston University Fine-Arts department...
July 11, 2023: Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine