Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Is a professional artist with advanced education in both the life sciences and visual communication. They produce resources such as photography and graphic images for professionals involved in patient care, teaching, education and research.

Salary: $62,000

Education: in order to be a medical illustrator you must have a masters degree and a medical illustration graduate program typically two years long.

Demand or need for this profession: need a good portfolio of work examples of cleared, detail images.

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

I think i would like to be a medical illustrator because i think its very cool to make good detailed images, and who doesn’t like to draw. And the salary is pretty good so i think i would love to become one.