Resources for Medical Artists & Medical Illustrators
Medical artists and medical illustrators create and sell art of a medical and scientific content and to do so, will have received anatomical training and possess a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, pathology, surgery, gross anatomy and orthopeadics, plus posses artistic design with regards to putting it all together in multimedia, scientific research, diagrams and charts, posters and leaflets and creating conceptual and general illustrations.
Medical illustrators create medical illustrations using traditional and digital techniques which can appear in medical textbooks, medical advertisements, professional journals, instructional videotapes and films, animations, computer-assisted learning programs, exhibits, lecture presentations, general magazines and television. Although much medical illustration is designed for print or presentation media, medical illustrators also work in three dimensions, creating anatomical teaching models, patient simulators, and facial prosthetics.
Medical Artists and Medical Legal Artists
Medical legal artists complete the same medical illustrations, however, for a specific audience. This includes completing the work for insurance companies, health care institutions and medical product manufacturers. A medical legal artist (medico-legal artist) to produce what's called 'courtroom exhibits'. These illustrations are created directly from the patient's own doctors reports and aim to explain the injury in a visual manner, to support the victims claim. This is because more often than not the medical information is complicated, comes as long written reports, includes medical terminolgy and abbreviations and so it has been proven that a visual interpretation has a far better impact.