Association of Medical Illustrators Award of Merit in the Didactic/Instructional - Surgery & Clinical

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Medical Legal Personal Injury Boards - The Case of Jessie Jack

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS6

Canadian courtroom (plaintiff)

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Prof. L. Lax

These illustration boards are intended to clarify the injuries sustained by Jessie Jack in the courtroom for a medical personal injury case. Challenges included interpreting poor-quality x-ray images and depicting fractures of the femur and humerus in a clear, understandable manner without being inflammatory. Another challenge was to convey all the information needed while keeping the layout as clean and concise as possible. Emphasis was taken to ensure the illustrations were relatable, personal, and evoked sympathy from the audience. This project served as an introduction to the guidelines and conventions in developing media for the Canadian courtroom.

This project was a team effort with Chi-Chun Liu at http://bmc1.utm.utoronto.ca/~chichun/final/index.html

This piece won an Award of Merit in the Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences category at the 2014 AMI conference. 

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PROCESS WORK

Initial sketches were done to determine a general layout and to isolate the key elements needed in the two boards.  

Each asset was pathed in Adobe Illustrator by me, and the base renderings were done by Chi-Chun Liu. On top of the base I added textures, finished the rendering, and highlighted key features of the fractures. 

Real bones were used for reference and anatomical accuracy.

Several layouts were done in Adobe Illustrator. 

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References

August Rutt, Surgery of the Lower Leg and Foot (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1980), 103.
Charles Court-Brown, An Atlas of Closed Nailing of the Tibia and Femur (London: Martin Dunitz Ltd, 1991), 13, 51-64.
Eduard Pernkopf, Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1963), 77-80.
Knirk, Jerry and Jesse Jupiter. 1986. "Intra-articular fractures of the distal end of the radius in young adults." The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 68: 647-659.
MacAusland, William. 1915. "Ankylosis of the elbow with reports of four cases treated by arthroplasty." The Journal of the American Medical Association. 64(4): 312-318. 
Thomas Wadsworth, The Elbow (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1982), 33, 57, 212, 293.