Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Medical reference services quarterly
Publication Date
4-2024
Volume
43
Abstract
To help address the well-being of the campus and contribute to empathy building amongst students pursuing careers as healthcare providers, an academic health sciences library built a graphic novel collection focused on comics that discuss medical conditions and health-related topics. The collection contains the experiences of patients, providers, and caregivers. The reader-friendly format of graphic novels provides an easy entry point for discussing empathy with health professions faculty and students. The collection has been used in the classroom during library instruction sessions, with the idea of integrating it within the curriculum.
MeSH Headings
Empathy, Humans, Libraries, Medical, Graphic Novels as Topic, Curriculum
DOI Link
ISSN
1540-9597
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
King, Jess and Bobal, Alison, "A Building Block of Empathy: Establishing a Graphic Medicine Collection in an Academic Health Sciences Library." (2024). Journal Articles: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library. 13.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/mcgoogan_articles/13
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 43(2), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2024.2329016 It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.