Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Medical illustrator work in medical fields and create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. They draw things that are in the range from microorganism to body part. Medical illustrators do illustrations that fall in the research about or creation of body parts. Sometimes they call them to crate model of artificial body parts.

Salary: 

$35,000 - $50,000

Education:

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 major in art and minor in science or major in science and minor in art. Certification as a medical illustrator requires a graduate degree in medical illustration, a portfolio review, and successful completion of a national examination.

Reflection: 

I don’t think I would like to be a Medical Illustrator because I simply suck at drawing. I wouldn’t like to draw body parts either.