Medical Illustrator

Medical Illustrator

A medical illustrator is a professional artist advanced education in both the life sciences and visual communication. Collaborating with scientists, physicians, and other specialists, medical illustrators transform complex information into visual images that have the potential to communicate to broad audiences.

The work of medical illustrator promotes education, research, patient, care, public relations, and marketing efforts. Most programs require master’s thesis projects and may have optional courses available in specialty fields such as advanced computer and video graphics, endoscopic illustration, or patient prosthetics. The Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators administers a certification program as a recognizable means to a practitioner’s current competency in the profession.

Now advances in computer graphics and imaging are generating vast new opportunities in which visualization is the key to understanding. While many medical illustrators still produce illustrations for books and journals, other now act art directors and producers of a broad range of work from animations and patient education programs to advanced computerized training simulations.

Salary: $62,000

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

I think I would may be a medical illustrator , because it’s sound  difficult and challenging to try to do it , and also because I like to draw and maybe I would be able to draw like those professional Medical Illustrator.