Medical Illustrator

Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical Illustrators are more highly skilled artists. They work strictly in the medical field and create graphics for textbook, journals, magazines and also educational films. Their drawings span a wide range from microorganisms to body parts

Some of the medical illustrator Prepare illustrations that aid in the research about or creations of a artificial body parts sometimes they are called upon to use modeling skills to create artificial body parts. Some of the time they need to use their modeling skills to create artificial body parts such as ears, nose for their patients that are deformed or they have undergone some surgeries.

Average Salary: $35,000-$50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming medical illustrators should take a college preparatory program in high school that emphasizes art and science. In college they should either take a major in arts and minor in science or you can have a major in science and a minor in arts. Undergraduate science courses should be the same as those required for medical school. 

I would not want to be a medical Illustrator because it not really my thing and I cannot even draws a nice picture and also I don’t really see myself in the future.