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Medical Illustration and Informatics is a degree category that consists of the following common degrees:
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Medical illustration is a form of biomedical communication. Degree programs in the field prepare students to work as medical illustrators and animators. These practitioners use their scientific/medical knowledge and artistic skills to transform complex medical information into visual images.
The images that they create are used by physicians, medical specialists and researchers, and medical educators, as well as by patients and members of the general public who want to better understand the human body and the medical conditions and diseases that can afflict it.
Because of advances in computer graphics and imaging, the field of medical illustration has evolved to include animation. This technology allows medical illustrators to create exceedingly detailed and sophisticated imagery that better clarifies medical information and that is widely available online.