Half of US adults read below an 8th-grade level, making health literacy a significant barrier in patient-provider communication. Low health literacy levels contribute to poor healthcare outcomes, and physicians often lack the tools to address this. Improve medical students’ ability to effectively educate patients by deconstructing disease processes into hand-drawn illustrations and develop students’ confidence utilizing innovative patient-centered communication strategies.
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Title
Patient illustration challenge: expanding approaches to patient education via hand-drawn diagrams
Creator
Rapp, Katrina : Oregon Health and Science University Arora, Megha : Oregon Health and Science University McCarthy, Alanna : Oregon Health and Science University Weil, Keaton : Oregon Health and Science University
Meeting Name
Research Week, Oregon Health and Science University, 2023