Visual Connections
This category encourages interdisciplinary dialogue, highlighting the ways in which health science, humanities, and the arts interact. It also showcases visual works that draw on historical, archival, or imaginative sources to inform and inspire discussion. Authors are encouraged to experiment with visual storytelling to convey research findings, concepts, or reflections. Ideal for submissions that combine scholarship with visual communication, this category is open to:
- Posters featuring historically inspired, archival imagery, digitized or born digital special collections
- Graphic or narrative visuals used in research dissemination
- Infographics
- Research study that is best communicated visually
Authors should include a brief narrative (150–300 words) contextualizing the visual content, methods, and relevance to health information professionals.
For creative inspiration, please see some examples of the visual works from other open-access journals, such as Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Research and Humanities in Medical Education.
Submission Information
Authors might find the Visual Connections submission template useful.
Visual Works
Visual Connections features innovative and creative two-dimensional visual works. Poster art, drawing, painting, illustration, comic art, collage, photography, digital rendering, images of three-dimensional works such as sculpture, textile, 3D scans, or other visual representations of narratives are welcome.
Poetry and Prose
Poems and prose that include visual narrative or storytelling are welcomed. Each submission should be no longer than one page in length (single spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman). If there are more than one poem, please submit each poem separately.
If you have any questions about the Visual Connections submission category, please contact Carol Ng-He.
