On Thursday, April 19, the University of Valencia (UV) organises the II Conference on Education, Teaching and Innovation through Comics (JEDI Cómic 2024), a meeting that brings together medical students, university professionals and comic creators, and whose registration is now open at the link https://links.uv.es/caroma7/JEDI2024. In this edition, we try to offer a perspective of the impact that graphic narrative can have for the treatment of health problems.

The conference, at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the UV, will start at 9:30 a.m. inaugurated by Ángeles Solanes, vice-rector of Lifelong Training, Teaching Transformation and Employment; Miguel Martí, secretary of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Carlos Romá Mateo, coordinator of the Graphic Physiology teaching innovation project.

It is a conference that offers both the university and external public the opportunity to see how university teaching offers bridges that go beyond the mere transmission of knowledge. This year, the conference includes a presentation of the materials related to comics and health available in the Health Sciences Library of the University of Valencia, through Laura Queipo and Blanca Salom.

In addition, Professor Marisa Guillén will present a training and dissemination project on female menstrual health and hygiene in Ethiopia in comic format; and there will be a square table where comics authors and editors focused on cellular physiology and mental health will interact with university faculty. A review will also be offered of the history of one of the longest-running satirical magazines of the University of Valencia, VBI PVS, by the students Lucía Romano, Mª Cristina Cabeza and Valentina Martín, who coordinate and edit it.

There will also be a keynote talk by Elisabeth Karin and Pavón Rymer-Rythén, the authors of one of the most used autobiographical comics for the dissemination and teaching of eating disorders that exist in the field of graphic medicine: Comiendo con miedo. Gloria Olaso, for her part, together with Carlos Romá Mateo, coordinators of the Consolidated Group of Teaching Innovation in Narrative Physiology, will present the Graphic Medicine Reading Club to address the role of the health professional in Eating Disorders.

This conference is part of a teaching innovation project financed by the University of Valencia through the Servei de Formació Permanent iInnovació Educativa of the UV (ref. UV-SFPIE_PIEC-2736635) and also has the support and sponsorship of the Valencian Association of Medical Students, the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the UV, the Cultura als Campus program of the UV, the Comic Classroom of the UV Comic Studies Chair and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT). Attendance at the event is free of charge.

Programme of the conference clicking here. 

Registration open at https://links.uv.es/caroma7/JEDI2024

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