What is a Jr. Medical Illustrator?
A Jr. Medical School illustrator is a student artist with special training in junior medicine and elementary, middle, and high school science who creates visual material to help record and disseminate medical, biological and related knowledge. Jr. Medical illustrators not only produce such material but function as consultants to other science students in grades 5 through 12. Nature of the Work Jr. Medical School illustrations appear in medical student journals, school advertisements, school web sites, instructional multimedia productions, computer-assisted learning programs, school art exhibits, lecture presentations, and for children’s television. Although the majority of medical illustrations are for print and projection media, medical illustrators also work in three dimensions, creating anatomical teaching models, models for simulated medical procedures and general classroom peer tutoring programs. Skills Required The field is most rewarding for those who enjoy and have some natural
