Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Describe how drawing comics can be used for oneself and for learners/team members.

2. Apply different strategies for drawing comics for a variety of goals.

3. Describe how graphic medicine texts can be used to teach. 

4. Apply teaching strategies with graphic medicine to varied learning objectives.

5. Describe how comics can be used to translate research into practice

6. Describe how comics can be studied as research

Faculty

Hilary Price
Keynote Speaker
Cartoonist

Angela Sweeney, MEd, MA
Curriculum Design Specialist
BERST Academy
Baystate Health

Bridget Gunn, MSLS, MS, AHIP
Information & Knowledge Services Librarian
Baystate Health

Rebecca Blanchard, PhD, MEd
Assistant Dean for Education
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
Director, BERST Academy
Baystate Health

Arlene Kruzel, MSN, RN-BC
Nursing Staff Development
Baystate Health

Alison Litera, BFA
Digital Content Analyst
Baystate Health

Kathy Marcinek, MSN, RN
Regional Hospital Case Manager Educator
Baystate Health

Elizabeth Eagleson, MD, FACP
Attending Physician - Brightwood Health Center
Learning Community Mentor
Baystate Health

Eric Churchill, MD, MPH
Director- Primary Care Residency Program
Attending Physician - High Street Health Center
Baystate Health

William Soares, MD
Physician, Emergency Services
Baystate Health

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.