Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:  

  A Medical Illustrator responsibility is to work in the medical field, they are to create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. They are to do drawings such as drawings span a wide range from microorganisms to a body parts.  Medical illustrators prepare other illustrators to aid in research about or creation of artificial parts, sometimes they are called modeling skills that create artificial body parts like noses, ears that are needed for patients that have had some sort of deformity or surgeries.

Salary:

$35,000 - $ 50,000

Education Requirements:

Those who are interested in this career, students must take college preparatory program in high school and take courses in art and science.

In college you must take a major or a minor in science or major science, and minor art. For undergraduate science courses are the same as required for medical school.

Medical Illustrators have a master’s degree in this field; most of the majority takes this program that is accreditation of Allied Health Educational programs.

For a certification a medical graduate degree in medical illustrator is required to a degree in medical illustration. A portfolio review and successful completion of a national examination.

Reflection:

In my opinion I wouldn't like to take this as a career it isn't that I see myself doing.