Twelve tips to make successful medical infographics

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
• student support
• communication skills

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully thank Mr. Carlos M. Ramos Lahiguera for his support in creating the manuscript infographics.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article.

Additional information

Funding

This work has been partially funded by the Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs of the Miguel Hernandez de Elche University [PIEU/2019/42].

Notes on contributors

Sergio Hernandez-Sanchez

Sergio Hernandez-Sanchez, PT, PhD, is physical therapist, lecturer (Physiotherapy degree) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).

Victor Moreno-Perez

Victor Moreno-Perez, PT, PhD, is physical therapist, lecturer (Sport Sciences) at the Faculty of Social and Health Sciences of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).

Jonatan Garcia-Campos

Jonatan García-Campos, PD, PhD, is podiatrist, lecturer (Podiatry degree) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).

Javier Marco-Lledó

Javier Marco-Lledó, MD, PhD, is medical doctor, full professor (Podiatry degree) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).

Eva Maria Navarrete-Muñoz

Eva Navarrete-Muñoz, PhD, is statistician, lecturer (Occupational Therapy degree) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).

Carlos Lozano-Quijada

Carlos Lozano-Quijada, PT, PhD, is physical therapist, lecturer (Physical Therapy degree) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernandez University (Spain).