FSU Med School Comic

I also created a comic addresses the same message in a very different approach. Comics are typically satirical, but they do address issues that are actually a problem. For instance, the comic I created depicts first year medical students being tested on their ability to label a cadavers skeletal system. The student picks up a man’s ribcage asking if this is his collarbone, and his partner affirms that it is indeed the collarbone when it is clearly not. The cadaver then rises up like a live person and tells the students, “Those are my ribs!” This satirical interaction depicts how the attitude of “thinking you know everything” is no longer acceptable in medical school. Even trained medical professionals who have decades of experience can’t possibly know everything there is to know about the human body. As a result, medical students must be dedicated to discovering as much as they can about the body to be the best physicians possible in the future. To distribute this comic, I decided to circulate it on Facebook including on the class pages for the medical schools. As I discovered in my interview, these class pages are used to answer any questions students have regarding the curriculum or assignments. Therefore, many medical students are visiting this page and it gets a lot of web traffic.

Lastly, the t-shirt that I designed was specifically made to address the characteristics that a future physician should possess and strive to have. The shirt displays a stethoscope on the front with the FSU logo on the diaphragm. This identifies that it pertains to Florida State University’s College of Medicine. On the back of the shirt it has an acrostic poem for the words “med student.” The qualities that are spelled out on the back describe what it takes to be a future physician and successfully navigate through medical school. These qualities are displayed in bold lettering to make sure the message of the shirt is received. I designed this shirt in Adobe Illustrator. I used an image of a blank white t-shirt as the base to create this garnet FSU med student shirt. This shirt would reach the broadest audience by wearing it around campus. Medical students are frequently roaming campus utilizing the libraries and other resources on campus. The t-shirt is effective because one person wearing it makes it a walking billboard.