Medical Illustrator

Duties & Responsibilities: professional artist with specialized training and advanced education in medicine, science, art, design, visual technology, media techniques, and in theories related to communication and learning.

Salary: $62,000

Education: In College, students should concentrate on art and biology. Art courses should include drawing, life drawing, painting, color theory, graphic design, illustration, and computer graphics. In the sciences, students should include general biology or zoology, vertebrate anatomy, developmental biology, physiology, chemistry, and cell biology. The science courses must be of the caliber required for science majors.

Reflection: Being a medical illustrator seems like a good job for someone that is really into animation and drawing or mapping things out for a medical professor or a doctor. The job does pay well, but this is something I might not look into in my future only because this is not in my interests. The human body is something that Is very extraordinary but it is a subject that has not gotten my attention quickly. I also want to maybe pursuit a career where it has to do with non-medical procedures and stuff like that. All in all, this is not my cup of tea but to many people I am sure it is a very interesting job.