Medical Illustrator

Duties and responsibilities:

A medical illustrator is a professional artist with education in life sciences and visual communication. They transform medical information into visual images. To add on, the work that they do promotes education, patient care, public relations, and marketing efforts. They work in medical centers to be able to do illustrations for things such as medical books, scientific journals, and also films and presentations. They do these illustrations so that is can be easier to clarify complex medical information. The places that they work at is medical schools, hospitals, clinics, and also in medical publishers. As you can see, they are very important because they take medical information, and create images by using their creativity.

Salary: $62,000 (annually).

Education requirements: You must be trained and have a master’s degree from a program in medical illustration. To add on, you can take other classes such as web design, and photography. It is not required but you can get a PHD degree related in science or education. You can also go to the Board Of Certification Of Medical Illustrators program to get your certificate. It is also required to have a bachelor’s degree in art or science.

Demand or need for this profession: Growing 2% from 2012-2022

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I do not think that i would like to be one because i am not a good artist, and it is something that really does not interest me that much. It is a good career, but not for me.