Medical Illustrator

Duties and responsibilities:

Medical illustrators create images to educate and explain complex biological processes. This allows the patient to understand more of what is going on to their body and how they are going to fix it. They create images with either a pencil drawing or sometimes even digital drawings. It all depends on the artist.

Education:

most medical illustrators have a master's degree from a program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. In your undergraduate program, you may wish to focus on biology and chemistry, as well as take some art classes. You often need to submit a portfolio, along with your undergraduate academic records, as part of the master's degree program admission process.Though certification isn't required, you may choose to seek professional credentials in order to demonstrate your ability.

Salary: The median salary for someone who is a medical illustrator is 42,610 dollars.

Demand for this profession: the projected job growth is 4% in between 2014-2024.

Reflection: In my opinion i would like to consider becoming a medical illustrator because it mixes my two favorite things a medical career and art. Even though it do look a bit unadventurous, it is still something i will be looking into.