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Draw It to Know It - medical teaching - by Mario Morone
by Mario Morone
posted: Jan. 19, 2018

Draw It to Know It, Creations, L.L.C. Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Neurologist Adam Fisch described the inspiration for his medical and science illustration company.

Draw It to Know It
Quan


"As a student, I found that sort of the best check on my knowledge was if you could draw out the information, then you had this internal schema that you could apply to anything else you could learn about it. It didn't matter what the course in medicine was - chemistry, anatomy, physics - everything could be broken down into a simplistic schema. Then you could rehearse it and that rehearsal would be the learning process. The first time I could really formalize it was when I was an intern teaching other medical students about the cranial nerves. I discovered the best way to teach was to distill it into its simplest component. Taking it and breaking it down into simple components and then building it back up. If you work through science like an instruction manual, you've become an active participant in the learning process. I've been working on things like this since medical school, but we started the real incarnation of the businesses in Broad Ripple about two and a half years ago, setting up shop in the summer of 2015 at 6507 Ferguson Street, Suite 102," he explained.

Neurologist Adam Fisch the founder of Draw It to Know It.
Neurologist Adam Fisch the founder of Draw It to Know It.
image courtesy of Adam Fisch


The location was an easy diagnosis for Dr. Fisch. "This is where I grew up. There's no better place in Indiana than right here."
Draw It to Know It offers individual courses at various academic levels. At the graduate/medical level, they teach Neuroanatomy, Gross Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Histology, Immunology/Microbiology, Pathology and Pharmacology. Undergraduate courses include Neuroscience Fundamentals, Anatomy & Physiology, Biochemistry Fundamentals and General Biology, Embryology and histology fundamentals. High school courses consist of Advanced Placement (AP) Biology and Anatomy & Physiology Fundamentals. They also help students prepare for the MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test in Biology & Biochemistry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Boards and ABPN Neurology Boards MOC (Maintenance of Certification). There are various discounts offered for large groups, of course, or test subscribers for residency programs, student groups, individual classes, academic departments, institutional licenses and hospital libraries. More information is available at their website: www.drawittoknowit.com. Dr. Fisch discusses program concepts in an instructional video at the Get Started link on their website to provide an overview. Questions can also be answered by calling (317) 929-1984.
He described a general of neurology: "It is the medicine of diseases of the nervous systems: key illness are strokes, seizure movement disorders, e.g. Parkinson's disease (brain tumors multiple sclerosis and spine diseases)." He wrote the book, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, which can be found at Amazon http://amzn.to/2DkwG2O.
"We believe in the power of taking your brain through the sequential process of one, two, three and then rehearsing it again and again. That is the cornerstone to learning in any education. Drawing becomes a form of art and note taking," Dr. Fisch emphasized.
His instructional work occurs in different learning environments. "I teach at Washington University in St. Louis and neuroanatomy review courses and taught in classroom all over and those experiences watching students learn and bring that to the education model itself. I split my time as a practicing neurologist and working here in addition to teaching. My grandfather and father were cardiologists."
After studying English as an undergraduate, he discovered his path into medicine. "I always liked the balance of reading, writing and doing science problems and working through them. I thought that one always balanced the other. That's what I bring together here in these courses." Dr. Fisch graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2004.
He recalled a certain physician who inspired him. "A mentor of mine was the late Bill DeMyer at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He once said, 'if you can't draw it, you don't know it.' He was iconic in the neuroanatomy lab there." A scholarship was established in Dr. DeMyer's name by the IU Medical Class of 1972 at their 25-year reunion in 1997 honoring him.
"This most rewarding thing about my work is having students who recognize the power of just how effective this process can be in their education. When you have a student who is struggling and finds our website (www.drawittoknowit.com), getting over the hump in their education in learning, that's why we're here. It really is an honor to help students get through their science education," Dr. Fisch reflected.
As a neurologist, educator and entrepreneur, Dr. Adam Fisch is teaching tomorrow's physicians and scientists today from the best place in Indiana, which just happens to be in Broad Ripple.

Draw It to Know It
Quan


Draw It to Know It
image courtesy of Adam Fisch


Draw It to Know It
image courtesy of Adam Fisch





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