{"id":13943,"date":"2021-05-14T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/gmr\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2021-05-14T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:48:19","slug":"ohio-health-sciences-library-association-spring-2021-ce-course-drawn-to-graphic-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2021\/05\/ohio-health-sciences-library-association-spring-2021-ce-course-drawn-to-graphic-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Health Sciences Library Association Spring 2021 CE Course: Drawn to Graphic Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ohio Health Sciences Library Association (OHSLA) gratefully acknowledges Region 6 for the Expert Speaker Award in support of its Spring 2021 CE Program presenters: Kathryn Houk,\u00a0MLIS, MPH, AHIP, CHIS I, Assistant Professor and Health Literacy and Community Engagement Librarian at the University of Nevada\u2013Las Vegas Health Sciences Library and Ariel Pomputius, <\/strong>MLIS, health sciences liaison librarian at the Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida\u2013Gainesville.\u00a0 They presented their 1.5 credit MLA CE course Drawn to<\/em> Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship<\/em> on Friday, April 30 from 10:30 am to noon Eastern via a Zoom meeting room (provided courtesy of OhioNET). OHSLA advertised the course to its own members and also via the Midwest Chapter MLA and the Academic Library Association of Ohio listservs.<\/p>\n

The instructors clearly value interactivity and designed activities that engaged the class participants. For instance, in addition to providing lists of resources for course participants, the instructors gave the participants the opportunity to recommend resources.\u00a0 Furthermore, those taking the course had the opportunity not only to analyze a sample graphic, but also to draw their own comic.\u00a0 The drawing exercise was especially well-received; several of the artists enthusiastically opted to share their drawing with the entire class and to describe what it depicted.<\/p>\n

There were several course objectives, but two of the most timely and critical were 1) to demonstrate how comics appeal to a variety of audiences, including both clinicians and health consumers and 2) to discuss how comics can amplify marginalized voices or ideas in health and healthcare. Based on the course evaluations, these objectives were achieved.<\/p>\n

There were 33 registrants for the live webinar, 4 of whom were not members of OHSLA.\u00a0 As of this writing, a total of 17 OHSLA program evaluation surveys have been submitted. The course and the instructors were rated very highly on the evaluation survey. The rating for relevance of content and information averaged 8.81 and the expertise of presenters averaged 9.75, both out of a maximum possible ranking of 10.<\/p>\n

Those who chose to comment on the course had good things to say. Here is a sampling:<\/p>\n