Twelve tips to make successful medical infographics

Med Teach. 2021 Dec;43(12):1353-1359. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1855323. Epub 2020 Dec 20.

Abstract

In the health sciences, professionals must keep up to date to conduct their evidence-based practise. Hence, there is a growing need to share medical knowledge efficiently among healthcare professionals, patients, and undergraduate health science students. Infographics (text and image) are a hybrid element that serves to represent information in an attractive and meaningful visual format. Actually, with the use of the Internet and social networks, infographics have become a popular format for sharing medical information around the world.On the basis of a published literature review, we provide 12 tips in this article to make a successfully health-related infographic with the aim of assisting clinicians, educators, and researchers in their task of communicating and transforming complex information into a visual, attractive, didactic and shareable format.By following these basic recommendations, it is possible to improve the dissemination of scientific and health-related knowledge to different audiences who can benefit from infographics.

Keywords: Teaching and learning; communication skills; student support.

MeSH terms

  • Data Visualization*
  • Health Personnel*
  • Humans