Medical illustrator
Duties
and Responsibilities: Medical
illustrators are highly skilled artists.
They work strictly in the medical field and create graphics for
textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. Their drawings span a wide range from
microorganisms to body parts.
Some medical illustrators
prepare illustrations that aid in research about or creation of artificial body
parts. At times, they are called upon to
use modeling skills to create artificial body parts, such as ears, and noses,
for patients that are deformed or have undergone some surgeries.
Average
Salary: $35,000 - $50,000
Educational
Requirements: 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. Undergraduate science courses
should be the same as those required for medical school.
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