Medical Illustrator

Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical illustrators produce resources such as photography and graphic images for professionals involved in patient care, teaching, education and research. There are four specialist areas which are clinical photography, graphic design, medical art, and videography. As a medical illustrator, you’ll be catertogised as a healthcare scientist and employed primarily by hospitals, medical schools, research establishments, and specialist publishers. Things you can do a medical illustrator is take photographs or films of patients, arrange the necessary consent from patients, and much more.

Salary: The typical starting value for junior medical illustrators working in the NHS are between $19,217 and $22,548 rising to $21,909 and $28,462. For senior medical illustrators the earn $26,302 to $35,225.

Education: A bachelors or masters degree  in medical illustration prepares a student to combine anatomy and physiology with artistic methods in order to teach or to develop graphic representations of biological elements. The majority of professionals have masters degree and interdisciplinary science education.

Demand or need for this profession: The job outlook for a medical illustrator is excellent and has continuously been growing.

Reflection: Would you like to be this? Why? Why not?

I do not like this career and would not like to be in it. I like the medical part but i am not into the art part. I wouldn’t like having a career in which i only like some part of it and not the other.