The University of Melbourne (UoM) Wurru Wurru Health Unit developed a case study for first-year medicine students, designed to ensure they could understand the experience of and impact to First Nations patients who go through a medical system that lacks cultural training and awareness.
This project required many detailed illustrations formatted for e-learning in H5P on a Canvas LMS plaform. The visual graphics had to bring the story to life and help learners empathise and understand the cultural context of First Nations patients.
These digital graphics were developed in consultation with the Wurru Wurru Health Unit, heavily researched for authenticity, culturally appropriate and aimed to personalise the devastating impacts of receiving insufficient healthcare over a lifetime.
AUDIENCE:
UoM First Year Medicine Students
Responsibilities:
Graphic design, digital design, illustrations, research, stakeholder consultation, group workshops, implementation of all digital assets into LMS.
Tools Used:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, hand-drawn illustrations, MS Office, Asana, Zoom, Google Docs, Miro, Canvas LMS, H5P.
The first stage of this project included extensive workshops with the stakeholder group (using Zoom and sharing Miro boards) to establish the branching scenarios students would explore to make choices as healthcare providers that would lead them to different consequences, allowing them to understand future impacts.
The case study's protagonist is "Ella Heywood", a 7-year-old Jarwadjali girl. To bring Ella to life for the learners, it was important to add detail about who she was, what she loved, her dreams and aspirations, and place her in a setting that learners can emotionally connect with: family, home, parents, culture and history.
In choosing what to illustrate, it was important to support the intended learning outcomes, so the assets are designed to capture key moments that are the result of the learner's choices and how they influence the course of Ella's life and all the unintentional, invisible knock-on effects.
