Baylor school of Medicine

Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure and honor of building an elective curriculum around the topic of inclusivity, engagement and representation in patient education and visual communication for Baylor College of Medicine with the support and guidance of Lindsey Cauthen, Ph.D.
This course was designed to address the lack of accessible representational resources in healthcare that benefit both the medical practitioners and patients.
There were two overarching questions for this curriculum:
1) “How and why does representation in visual communication resources matter in how doctors work with and treat patients?” -&-
2) “How does the lack of readily available representative images/visuals affect the patients’ ability to self-educate and ultimately, appropriately self-care?”
Throughout this elective, we aimed to use creative problem solving to tackle the topic of ‘cultural competence’ when tending to patients of different backgrounds and utilize this visual knowledge to aid and support audiences with low health literacy. The goal is to affect change in the visual language used when educating doctors, which ultimately will improve the patient experience.
I’m grateful to have been given this opportunity to build something exciting.