(CNN) — (The Conversation) — “Medical illustrators draw what can’t be seen, watch what’s never been done, and tell thousands about it without saying a word.” For decades, this slogan appeared on the ...

Chidiebere Ibe, a medical illustrator and aspiring neurosurgeon, noticed that the patients in medical diagrams are always depicted as White. So, he decided to change that. Ibe, who is from Nigeria, ...

Medical illustration is both an art and a science. But it can have a huge cultural impact, too, as medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discovered when his illustration of a pregnant Black ...

You know those posters that often hang up in doctor’s offices? Sometimes they display pictures of the human spine; other times they show human anatomy to point out a particular ailment. Well, there’s ...

RIT’s medical illustration BFA teaches you to take complex scientific and medical information and distill it into stunning visual images. A medical illustrator is a professional artist with advanced ...

The medical illustration MFA program at Rochester Institute of Technology has been awarded initial accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The ...

Judges select Paul J. Kim of New Jersey as winner of first-ever Netter contest Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Recently I had the pleasure of attending the ...

When I was pregnant, I spent countless hours waiting for my obstetrician at the hospital. At the time, it didn't occur to me that the only images of a woman's body and foetus framed on the walls were ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artists reveal what cannot be seen. Henry Gray, Anthony Edwward Spitzka/Internet Archive via Flickr “Medical illustrators draw ...