Medical illustrator

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Duties and Responsibilities: They create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films.  Their drawings span a wide range from microorganisms to body parts.

Salary:  $35,000 - $50,000

Education: Students Interested in becoming medical illustrators should take a college preparatory program in high school that focus on 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 are the same as those required for medical school.

The majority of medical illustrators have master's degrees in the field from a program that is accredited by Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Educational Programs.

Certification as a medical illustrator requires a graduate degree in medical illustration, a portfolio review, and successful completion of a national examination.

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a medical illustrator because I can not draw, I am not good in that so I wouldn’t want to be one.