Anatomy
Heart and lungs, front view (Gray's Anatomy, plate 490)
Henry Vandyke Carter (Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, 1918)Public domain
Medical illustration
Visual communication as a scientific capability
Medical illustration is an institutional capability, not decoration. Figures are reviewed for accuracy, and every image is correctly licensed and credited.
Capabilities
What the unit works on
- Anatomical illustration
- Scientific diagrams
- Research figures
- Visual abstracts
- Biomedical visualisation
- Infographics
- Publication illustration
Gallery
Full gallery Openly licensed illustrations
Selected from Wikimedia Commons with full creator and licence details.
Evidence
The Illustration unit Research on visual communication
How best to share research with study participants? A randomised crossover trial comparing a comic, lay summary, and scientific abstract
Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine · DOI: 10.1080/17453054.2022.2056321
2022
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Views: A Triple Crossover Trial of Visual Abstracts to Examine Their Impact on Research DisseminationOPEN ACCESS
Journal of Medical Internet Research · DOI: 10.2196/22327
2020
The misuse of colour in science communicationOPEN ACCESS
Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7
2020
Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research on Social Media
Annals of Surgery · DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002277
2017
Commission or collaborate on illustration
Publication figures, visual abstracts, illustrated atlases and educational diagram series.