Patient Medical Photography
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How does Medical Photography help patients?
The reason for taking photographs or video recordings is to make a record of your, your child's, or relative’s medical condition.
It is practice to file these photographs with the clinical notes to assist your Doctors and other members of the multidisciplinary team to observe changes in your medical condition over a period of time. Photographs and video recordings can also be used for teaching and medical presentations, and are extremely useful for teaching medical staff about medical conditions. They can also be used for publications in medical journals, medical publications and textbooks.
You have the right to decide how your medical photographs or video may be used. As a leading teaching hospital and a centre of excellence A.M.N.C.H relies on patient photographs to assist in the teaching and training of staff.
Serial representative photography aids care and outcome by recording over a period of time the progression of a disease or illness.
• Photography is used as an aid to teaching of undergraduate and post graduate training
• As an aid to educate staff and patients
• In the production of patient information leaflets which can enhance patient care and improve the quality of that care
• The production of academic and health information materials
• The production of clinical and information videos
• Public relations photography
Your images have enourmous educational value and their use can help greatly in the education of our staff and benefit other patients.
Consent
There are three levels of consent in A.M.N.C.H medical record level, teaching level, and publication level.
Medical record level
consent means that the photographs will only be held in your medical case notes and used as an aid to treatment.
Teaching level
consent means that you give permission for your photographs / video images to be used for the teaching of medical staff at lectures, tutorials and professional presentations.
Publication level
consent means that you give permission for your photographs / video images to be used in medical journals and text books. The photographs / video may also be used for teaching material such as CD-ROMs, DVDs and for web-based education.
The use of your photographs / video images is of great value in informing others in the healthcare professions about conditions and their treatment, and may benefit other patients with similar conditions.
For a copy of our consent policy please contact
Medical Photography and Illustration Department,
AMNCH,
Tel: 01 4143773
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About Us
Medical Photography and Illustration Department aims to improve patient care by accurately recording (often over a period of days, months or years) the physical appearance of the condition and/or treatment.
Medical Photography and Illustration Department provide many different services which include;
Ø Patient Medical Photography
Ø Promotional and Educational Photography
Ø Design and publishing of Patient Information Leaflets
Ø Design and print of Academic Medical Poster presentations
Ø Record and Produce Patient Medical Videos
Ø Co-ordinate video conferencing
Facilitate Audio Visual Service
Contact Us
 | Thomas Walsh BSc, MIMI: Senior Medical photographer (Department manager) Phone 01 4143773: 01 4145864: |
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 | Lisa O Leary: Graphics and Clerical Support Phone 01 4143773: 01 4145864: |
| | Video and Audio-visual Phone 01 4143773: 01 4145864: |
Email tommy.walsh@amnch.ie
shane.duggan@amnch.ie
lisa.oleary@amnch.ie
For our Service Information Leaflet Please click here
Location
The Medical Photography and Illustration Department is situated in the X-ray Department on the ground floor of the hospital. The Department is independent of X-Ray and provides a wide range of services to consultant, non-consultant Doctors, Medical Paramedical, Nursing and Administration staff
Opening Times
Monday - Friday
9am - 5pm
Our Awards
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2009
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2009
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2009
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2009
Institute of Medical Illustrators Silver Award 2008
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2008
Institute of Medical Illustrators Silver Award 2007
Institute of Medical Illustrators Bronze Award 2007
Recognition Award by Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards 2009
Recognition Award by Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards 2008
History of Medical Photography
From its inception in the 1800s photography has played a vital role in patient management, in the teaching of medicine and in assessment and diagnosis of illnesses. Improvements in film and cameras in the late 1800s and early 1900s allowed for increasingly better medical photography. However, it was not until the second half of the last century that skilled medical photographers became a regular part of overall patient management.
It was while working in the Royal Medical College, who trained over 1,000 radiographers and some 60 radiologists during the Second World War (1939-1945), that Thomas Albert Longmore a Radiographer, published the first edition of Medical Photography. This book was in all probability the first significant book on medical photography and paved the way for the profession of medical photography, as we know it today. His book introduced, from radiology, many of the standard procedures used in that already established field. The role, practice and methodology of the medical photographer was reinforced by later works including. Medical Photography in Practice E.F. Linssen (ed) (1961), Medical photography Study Guide Williams, R. (1960) and later Biomedical Photography Vetter J. P. (ED)(1992). Facilities like the London School of Medical Photography and medical photographers such as Hansell, Ollerenshaw and Donald, succeeded in gaining recognition of medical photography as a profession, equal in eminence, skill and academic standard to other health care professions. Today Medical Photographers have to achieve a degree in medical Illustration and be state registered in order to photograph patients in UK hospitals.
Useful Links
Institute of Medical Illustrators
www.imi.org.uk
