The Value of Cartoon Figures in Medical Education and Health Awareness

The use of cartoons in medical education and health awareness has developed greatly in the last decade.Many difficult theoretical thoughts become very accessible and easy to understand through the use of comic cartoon figures, to facilitate the learning process for the study materials.On the other hand, the use of these materials in a non-dependent technique, can harm the learning process at all.This literature review mainly examines the main possible uses of comic characters in medical education and how to deeply identify the main evidence-based rules for creating an effective comic material in medical education and health awareness fields.Search on MEDLINE, Psychl-NFO, and EMBASE for scientific publications addressing the use of cartoon figures material in medical education and health awareness were done.Then, all retrieved original studies scientifically examined, reviewed, and summarized to compare the use of cartoon characters in medical education with traditional study materials.Comic figures-book have long been used in this field, with a notable recent increase in use.However, despite this longstanding use, the documented significant evidence of the values of comic books is still insufficient.However, comic books can be used to change knowledge in medical education and increase empathy and behavioral changes between physicians and patients in health awareness and practice.In conclusion, the current published articles regarding the value of usage of cartoon figures in the medical education and health awareness are not clearly enough to explore their values.So, more deep research with special considerations to the procedure that involves cartoon figures in the medical educational process, possible applications in health practice and finally efficiency of highly -quality comic figures by expertise personnel in the medical educational and health awareness materials are encouraged.