Explaining medicines through drawing – and you don’t even have to be good at drawing!

You are just adding the 4th medicine to ‘reduce blood sugar’. A frequent question is, “so can I stop the others?”

More disturbing is, “but they are all doing the same thing, so I just take two of them.”

People can be overwhelmed by their medicines, especially when they seem to be for the same condition. This impacts on their adherence. Understanding their medical condition and how medicines work is an important part of improving adherence.

Drawing can significantly improve understanding and recall of medication information by making complex actions more informative and engaging than text alone. This visual approach benefits individuals with varying literacy levels and supports long-term retention by fostering deeper engagement and connection with the information – and with you.

This session is interactive. We all have different analogies and drawings that we use to impart clinical information in 60 seconds. So, in this session you may pick up different quick-fire drawings and explanations you can use, share your own, and perhaps refine what you do.