Medical photography: a Trinidad experience

In 1991, the creation of the Media Unit at the St. Augustine Campus, University of West Indies, first established medical illustration as an organized profession within the public healthcare provision of Trinidad and Tobago. Since then the Unit has overcome many difficulties, some of them unusual for medical illustrators in the developed world, not least in obtaining equipment unavailable in the country, in finding suitable working facilities, and in developing practices for veterinary work. Today the Media Unit services a wide range of the University's schools, clinics and media services, and has been instrumental in educating a new generation of healthcare professionals.