Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: A medical illustrator is a professional artist with specialized training and advanced education in medicine, science, art, design, visual technology, media techniques, and in theories related to communication, learning and management. Collaborating with scientists, physicians, and other content specialists, medical illustrators serve as visual translators of complex technical information to support education, medical and bio-scientific research, patient care, patient education, public relations, and marketing objectives. They transform complex information into striking images that stimulate imagination, facilitate learning, and record scientific discovery. In addition to producing such material medical illustrators often function as content developers, creative directors, consultants and administrators within the general field of bio-communication and as business owners and entrepreneurs in the marketplace.

Salary: $35,000-50,000

Education: Most medical illustrators have a Master's degree from an accredited graduate program from one of five medical schools. There are currently four accredited programs in the United States and one in Canada, each accepting 16 or fewer students per year. Accreditation is from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). Entrance into all of these schools is very competitive

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

I wouldn't to be a Medical Illustrator because I am not a very good artist. Drawing is not my thing to do.