
We compare popular infographic software, including Canva, Gauge, BrainGate, Piktochart, Instagram, and Chart, noting templates, pricing, and live-data capabilities, with Canva chosen for this course.
Create an effective infographic by telling a concise story with clear structure and one key message, using visuals and concise text, and design principles like proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast.
Learn to source data for infographics, cite at least five references in American Medical Association style, and customize Canva templates using government data and PubMed for original visuals.
Gather credible articles on physician burnout, save links and PDFs, and cite primary sources like the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet, while including pandemic data.
Sourcing data for a physician burnout infographic, focusing on the COVID era message and factors like bureaucratic burden and depression, with carefully formatted references.
Learn to work with clients to define infographic style, message, audience, and usage, then research data, present three alternatives, and set pricing, revisions, and timelines.
Learn to design a medical infographic in Canva by selecting a template, choosing color palettes, copying hex codes, and pairing Spartan headings with Baskerville body text for legibility.
learn to import a color palette into Canva by copying the palette URL and pasting hex codes; the free version limits to three colors, while pro supports more.
Create components from Medscape burnout data using Canva templates, assembling visuals in a document. Maintain a consistent color scheme and fonts, and export charts as separate images for social media.
Select a Canva template, customize headings and colors, upload media, and place infographic components to build a clear, final version focused on physician burnout and patient solutions.
Finalize your infographic on physician burnout with a patient-focused message about what patients can do to help doctors, and align headings, spacing, data, and design principles for clean, cohesive layout.
Deliver polished infographic assets by respecting client preferences, organizing files in clear folders, and providing multiple formats, including SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG, delivered via a shared link.
With this course you will learn how to
Select an appropriate topic for an infographic, with a special focus on medical and scientific topics (not necessary to create one on that topic but that is the focus of this course)
Select data that will help support the message you are trying to convey
Choose colors and fonts that will be aesthetically pleasing and fit with the subject area
Compare Canva with other easy-to-use infographic design software available
Lay out the different components, also created in Canva, into an infographic format
Develop the skills to provide infographic design services using Canva
Requirements
You should be familiar with using a computer
No graphic design skill needed but a willingness to learn what works well in infographic design
A medical/scientific background would be suitable for this course, but you don't need one to benefit from the content
Description
Welcome to Creating Medical and Scientific Infographics With Canva, where I will teach you to create infographics using Canva.
With this course, you’ll learn about the different software programs available to create infographics, and we will be focusing in on using Canva, which is super easy to use and intended for non designers.
We’ll talk about what makes for an effective infographic, where to get templates, and then we will create an infographic, filling it out step-by-step. You can follow along, and by the end of this course, you’ll have your own infographic ready to go.
As a point of interest these infographics and their individual components can be made into any kind of social media posts if you’d like. So that might be useful too.
You can make infographics for your own purposes or offer them as a visual to your clients if you are for example, a freelance medical writer. If you are graduate student or post-doc research, perhaps you could find an interesting way to build awareness about your research through an easy to visualize infographic, downloadable from your website.
Everyone always like looking at an interesting infographic rather than reading a bunch of text.
If you haven’t used Canva before—no worries—it is super easy to use.
Join this course and create an infographic in a very short time!