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 biocommunication and as business
owners and entrepreneurs in the marketplace.
Average
Salary: $35,000 - $50,000
Education: In College, students
should concentrate on art and biology. Art courses should include drawing, life
drawing, painting, color theory, graphic design,illustration, and computer
graphics. In the sciences, students should include general biology or zoology, vertebrate
anatomy, developmental biology, physiology, chemistry, and cell biology. The
science courses must be of the caliber required for science majors.
Some graduate
schools limit the percentage of studio art courses eligible for entrance into
graduate programs. Please consult the schools to which you are applying for
specific requirements.
Reflection: I would not like to be a medical illustrator
because I’m not interested on trying this ever because it’s not the topic I want
to do when I grow.