Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

A medical illustrator creates original, polished and engaging visual. Applies the fundamental principles of light, form, space, and time to media. Discusses and researches anatomy and physiology to ensure medical accuracy. Collaborates with internal clients to ensure visual content is supported by evidence based medical information. Develops clean sketches and has a strong focus on storyboard s clearly communicate learning objectives. Uses appropriate software to each task based on medium advantages and limitation.

Salary: $ 53,080 in 2010 according to the BLS

Education:

 

Since medical illustration is a cross between medicine and art, an art, an aspiring medical illustrator should consider studying art as well as medicine. Ideally, a medical illustration career will start with a bachelors’ degree in either art or pre-medicine. Aspiring medical illustrators may also need to earn a Master of Arts or Science in medical illustration. Only a handful of educational institutions in the United States offer these degree programs, however, and acceptance into these programs is very competitive.