Mapping the female reproductive system: Arts-based inquiry of medical students’ anatomy drawings.

This paper discusses hand-made drawings produced by first-year medical students to portray the female reproductive system, and the anatomical, cultural and emotional features the drawings involve. Drawing here is considered a research method in collecting and disseminating data, as well as a typical method for teaching and learning anatomy. In this arts-based study, drawing is also a method for interrogating the data in the author’s art practice, asking how art and especially animation may inquire into and contribute to anatomy education (research).