Medical Photography: Practices of Graduate Students at Makerere University

J Biocommun. 2019 May 23;43(1):e3. doi: 10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9484. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Medical photography is a specialized genre of photography concerned with taking photographs beneficial to medical practice. This study aimed at delineating trends in medical photography practices among graduate students at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Data suggest most graduate students first encounter medical photographs in their classes (68.1%), although some had taken their own medical photographs (13.5%), primarily using their mobile phone (81.6%). However, the majority of the photographs (66%) were taken by their colleagues.

Keywords: Medical photography; clinical photo-graphy; photography sharing; photography smart technologies; photography trends.