25-year-old Chidiebere Ibe, a first-time student at Kyiv Medical University, drew an image of a pregnant Black woman’s womb– a diagram that is rarely seen in the medical industry.

The image, created by Nigerian medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe, struck a chord with countless people on social media, many of whom said that they had never seen a Black fetus ...

M edical illustration is both an art and a science. But it can have a huge cultural impact, too, as medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discovered when his illustration of a pregnant ...

A Black medical student whose medical illustrations featuring a Black pregnant woman went viral in 2021 has sparked a nationwide initiative to diversify images in medicine. The illustrator is ...

The illustration featured a Black person and their baby. Some admitted that they didn’t realize medical illustrations predominately feature white bodies, while others felt a sense of inclusion ...

Aspiring pediatric neurosurgeon Chidiebere Ibe went viral this month over his medical illustration of a Black fetus in a Black parent’s womb after a Twitter user shared the photo. The post was ...

Ibe, who will attend Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine next month, became interested in medical illustration in July 2020 and spent a year teaching himself to draw anatomy. From the start, he ...

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 ...

In fact, it was Brödel who founded the first dedicated medical illustration department at Johns Hopkins in 1911. The principle behind the carbon dust technique is simple and only uses common art ...

As we progress towards an increasingly digital age, the importance of digital art skills for Medical Illustration such as animation, 2D and 3D animation, graphic design, web design, and VR/simulation ...

What is a Medical Illustrator? A medical illustrator is a professional artist with advanced education in the sciences (biology, human anatomy, physiology) and in art and design (illustration, 2D/3D/4D ...

“Historically [medical illustrations] have always featured white able bodied male figures and still do in the present day,” Ford said. “Bias towards one body type in medical illustration ...