Illustration and visual formats

This branch covers making visual material for medical communication. Its parts distinguish medical illustration, comics, visual abstracts and infographics, and artwork prepared for inclusion in a document. General visual-communication principles and graphs displaying study data belong to neighbouring branches and topics.

• Medical illustration — the illustrator’s role, preparation, media, applications, techniques and representation of patients
• Graphic medicine — comics in health communication, reading experience, acceptance, evidence, trust and production techniques
• Visual abstracts and infographics — formats, audiences, graphical abstracts, infographic design, distribution and evaluation
• Preparing figures and artwork for a document — purpose, artwork terms, readability, image quality, collaboration with illustrators, combined images and submission