A Black medical student's viral medical illustrations has sparked a nationwide initiative to diversify images in medicine.
A Black medical student whose medical illustrations featuring a Black pregnant woman went viral in 2021 has sparked a nationwide initiative to diversify images in medicine.
Ibe's mentor suggested that he create diverse medical illustrations himself, sparking his work to promote diversity in medical illustrations. Ibe is now the chief medical illustrator and creative director for the Journal of Global Neurosurgery and a student at Copperbelt University School of Medicine in Zambia.Lack of diversity in medical illustrationsanalyzing 4,000 images from four widely used medical textbooks found that while these textbooks approximate the racial makeup of the U.S.
"This may be because doctors are not trained to recognize how skin cancer presents on darker skin tones," she said.Rachel Hardeman, a professor specializing in health and racial equity at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, connects the lack of diversity in medical illustrations to racism within the health care system as a whole.
"It's often next to a statistic, such as Black birthing people are four times more likely to experience maternal mortality, or Black infants are twice as likely to experience infant mortality," she said."It's often tied to these really horrifying and heartbreaking statistics, and rarely is it in a way that's either normalized or celebrated, even."
Ibe, the chief medical illustrator of Illustrate Change, created 25 diverse medical illustrations for the launch, spotlighting darker complexion models and conditions such as atopic dermatitis, prostate cancer, preeclampsia, psoriasis and peripheral artery disease, among others.Illustrate Change's roll out of 25 diverse medical illustrations spotlighting darker complexion models includes psoriasis.
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