During a printmaking class her first year at the University of Delaware, Isaura López thought a lot about bugs. The senior fine arts major said that she’s always been interested in the precision and ...

As a medical illustrator, Audrey Thompson appreciates the value of educating through visuals. She worked on a project this semester where she leveraged her skills to teach patients and the general ...

From body snatching to Photoshop and VR, medical illustration has evolved. But its essential role in clinicians’ work continues today.

We visit a medical illustrator’s studio, where boxes of bones, skulls and anatomy textbooks come to life through paint strokes and computer clicks. Medical illustrations in textbooks and journals have ...

‘A picture worth a thousand words’: Art meets medicine at CHOP’s in-house studio of medical illustrators Medical illustration is a small field — there are about 2,000 certified professionals in the ...

Wilson argues for the importance of diversity in medical illustration. Credit: Hillary D Wilson Hillary Wilson has always had a deep appreciation for art and medicine. As a child growing up in the ...

DIFFERENT VIEW: Daphne Papathomas, a third-year UM medical student, leads a discussion of Sandy Skoglund's print, ‘Fox Games,’ at the Fine Art of Health Care workshop at the Lowe Art Museum.

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice (1485-90) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s become more evident over the past few decades that medical school admission ...

The Art That Made Medicine traces the interconnections between artistic practice and medical knowledge in Western anatomical illustration from the late 1400s to the mid-1900s. Together, artists and ...

In a cramped workroom at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a team of six—one second-year resident, two interns, and three medical students—feverishly enter diagnostic information at computer ...

With medical tattoos, the age-old art of body illustration is put to practical use, restoring visual wholeness while supporting emotional and psychological recovery.