Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical Illustrator is an artist with specialized training and advanced education in science, visual technology, art, design, medicine, and media techniques. They illustrate what the patient may be going through inside their body. If the patient is going through something inside the medical illustrator draws what they see inside. He gives them a visual picture so that doctors, scientists, etc. know what they need to do.

 

Salary: $62,000

Education:

Most Medical Illustrator have a master’s degree from an accredited graduate program. There are currently three accredited programs in the United States and one in Canada. The courses in these programs are human gross anatomy, physiology, pathology, histology, neuroanatomy, embryology, and surgery. It is very tough getting into these programs because they accept 20 or less students.  

Demand:

It is very high especially because of the limited amount of medical illustrator that graduate every year. As the growth of medical research increases so does the job for medical illustrators.

Reflection:

I will not like to be a medical illustrator because drawing isn’t my favorite thing. First of all, I don’t know how to draw and in order to be an illustrator you need to be accurate with your design, so they can tell what is wrong. If you draw bad then you aren’t helping anyone.