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, noses, for patients that are deformed or have undergone some surgies.

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 inn art and minor in science or major in science and minor in art.

I think this job would really be good for me I like to draw and especially looking at body parts that are interesting and this job pays good. J