Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical illustrators create and produce resources for all professionals involved in any patient care, teaching, education, and research. The resources would be photography and/or graphic images for the professionals if needed. Medical illustrators can specialize in four areas, which are:

• Clinical Photography
• Graphic Design
• Medical Art
• Videography

With these four specialized areas, they may be known or labeled as categorized scientists. They may be employed mainly by:

• Hospitals
• Medical Schools
• Research Establishments
• Specialist Publishers

Salary: $62,000

Education:

To become a medical illustrator, one must be able to draw or create images of the human and animal bodies as well as plants. There are bachelor's degree programs that offer a combination of science and art education. All students are required to have obtained their high school diploma or GED certificate.

Demand or Need for this profession:

There is a projected growth in employment between 10% and 25% since the year 2010.

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

I don't think I would like to be one, because I wouldn’t want this career. I would like to do more than just illustrate resources.  I know there would be more for me to do, so I already decided on my future career. As I would love to work with kids.