ENT Clinical Skills Videos - Illustrations

Larynx illustration - thyroid cartilage and gland labelled

Overview

Project Title: ENT Clinical Skills Videos – Illustrations

Project Sponsor: Mr Richard Green, Consultant Otolaryngologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee

TILT Medical Artist: Eve Laws

A set of specific illustrations were requested for updated clinical skills videos featuring internal examinations of the ear, nose and throat. These illustrations will be both standalone as well as complementary to the internal examination videos, further enhancing student learning.

Final Outcome

Superior view of the larynx illustration

Illustration showing a scattering of the light reflex against the bulging tympanic membrane

Illustration of an attic defect with a cholesteatoma and tympanosclerosis, the outline of the malleus head and lateral process highlighted

Illustration of nasal distance to specific structures - 5cm to posterior ethmoid cell openings, 7cm to face of sphenoid, 9cm to posterior sphenoid

Lymph nodes - preauricular, post-auricular, upper cervical, submandibular, submental, middle cervical, pretrachael, lower cervical, supraclavicular, and posterior triangle

Illustration of air bubbles behind the yellowed tympanic membrane, with less prominent light reflex

illustration of patient with septal haematoma, inferior view

Sagittal view of internal nasal cavity - labelled are frontal sinus, superior, middle and inferior turbinates, nasal cavity, nasal vestibule, choana, eustachian tube orifice, fossa of Rosenmuller, adenoid pad, sphenoid sinus and nasopharynx

Illustration of outer ear anatomy - labelled are crura of helix, crus of helix, anterior notch, lobule of ear, cavum conchae, antitragus, tragus, antihelix, auricular tubercle (Darwin), and helix

Outer ear illustration with overlay of temporal bone, mastoid process and temporomandibular joint highlighted

Institute of Medical Illustrators - Silver Award 2024

In 2024, this illustration series won Silver in the Institute of Medical Illustrators annual awards. The artwork now features on their website with the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine to follow.