Research Guides: Graphic Medicine at VCU: Articles and Databases

In the Literature

"Medical Graphic Narratives to Improve Patient Comprehension and Periprocedural Anxiety Before Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Randomized Trial."
Brand, Anna, MD; et al. (2019) Annals of Internal Medicine. doi: 10.7326/M18-2976
"Cancer and Comics: Exploring the Potential of Graphic Medicine in Interprofessional Education."
Olson, Cora, PhD, et al. (2019). Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine: Jefferson College of Health Sciences. Poster presentation for the 2019 Emswiller Symposium
"Developing a Web-Based Comic for Newly Diagnosed Women With Breast Cancer: An Action Research Approach."
Lee, Ti, RN, MS, et al. (2019). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(2). doi: 10.2196/10716
"Perception About Use of Comics in Medical and Nursing Education Among Students in Health Professions' Schools in New Delhi."
Anand, T, et al. (2018). Education for Health, 31(2), 125-129. doi: 10.4103/efh.EfH_298_15
"Using Comics to Communicate About Health: An Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Narratives and Graphic Medicine."
King, AJ. (2017). Health Communication, 32(5), 523-624. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1211063
"There's no billing code for empathy" - Animated comics remind medical students of empathy: a qualitative study."
Tsao, P, and Yu, CH. (2016). BMC Medical Education, 16(204). doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0724-z
"Comics and Medicine: Peering Into the Process of Professional Identify Formation."
Green, MJ. (2015). Academic Medicine, 90(6), 774-779. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000703

Best Bets

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) foremost biomedical and life sciences database. Includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.
CINAHL Complete
Comprehensive source of full-text journals and books indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Also features evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more.
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
American Psychological Association database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents.
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full-text access for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and periodicals, among other materials. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.
JSTOR
Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Backfiles end typically 3 - 6 years prior to the current date).

Search Terms

Here are some suggested search terms for looking up graphic medicine topics in scholarly databases:

graphic medicine
comics in healthcare
health comics
comics AND health information
comics AND health literacy
graphic novels
educational comics