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This course aims to help students develop their visual communications skills, understand the value of didactic images and learn the role of medical illustration in creating a just healthcare environment for all.
(The schedule below varies from year to year, and last-minute changes can occur.)
Week 1
History 1: Prehistory of medical illustration
Drawing instruction 1: Light & shadows
History 2: From Vesalius to Brödel
Drawing instruction 2: Perspective
Week 2
History 2: Medical practices in art
History 3: The artist as observer
Drawing instruction 3: Values/learning to see
Week 3
History 1: Prehistory of medical illustration
Drawing instruction 1: Light & shadows
History 2: From Vesalius to Brödel
Drawing instruction 2: Perspective
Week 4
History 5: The shady and the sublime part 1
Field Trip: RISD Model Drawing/RISD Nature Lab
Week 5
Drawing instruction 7: Figure and organ drawing
Invited speaker: Certified Medical Illustrator
History 6: Visionary or poor vision?
Week 6
Invited speaker: Physician & Illustration Professor
Drawing instruction 8: From sketch to narrative
History 7: The shady and the sublime: part 2
Week 7
In-class discussion: Ethics and medical illustration
Invited speaker: How to illustrate an operationÂ
Invited speaker: Medical Illustrator & Doctor
Week 8
Field trip to the operating room
Week 9
Invited speaker: Diagnostic imaging and illustration
Art+Science in utero
Drawing instruction 9: Visual abstract
Invited speaker: Visual Thinking Strategies
Week 10
Field trip to the operating room
Week 11
Keynote speaker: Certified Medical Illustrator
Final Project presentations
Week 12
Final Project presentations
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