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A nonsense discussion about medical exhibits.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Medical Exhibits
Medical Exhibits are created by medical illustrators
Medical exhibits are created by artists who are trained in medicine and the visual arts. These artists usually begin their interest in medical illustration by having a love for the arts as well as a love for the sciences. They usually take several college courses to help prepare them for a graduate program in medical illustration. Some graduate programs go by different names such as "biomedial visualization" or "medical communications". But regardless of which program you go to, you can easily become an artist who creates medical exhibits. When you graduate from the graduate program then you can go to work for several medical exhibits providers across the United States. These companies will hire good medical illustrators to create medical exhibits for them. You can also freelance as a medical-legal illustrator and create your own exhibits to sell to clients.
Medical Illustrators are hired by medical exhibits providers
Medical exhibits providers actively recruit medical illustrators from the top 5 graduate programs in the united states. The competition to get into these programs is more less strict than it used to be, but still there are only a handful of qualified students graduating each year. This causes the medical exhibits companies to be more aggressive in recruiting new hirees. Some graduate students decide to participate in internships to help them gain experience in the medical-legal field. Often times, these interns are then hired on by the companies with which they did their internships. The internships provide valuable experience and teach the intern the ins and outs of the field. They also allow the intern to show off his/her skills while they are helping to create medical exhibits for the company. Usually these internships are not paid, but many times the intern can negotiate a paycheck for his/her hard work.
There are many medical exhibits companies across the united states who will hire any good medical illustrator. These companies may be small companies consisting of only a few people, or they may be large companies with a staff of 10-20 illustrators. Usually working for a company will impose some stylistic influences on an artist's artwork. Many of the companies try to maintain a certain image or style that gives their medical exhibits a sense of consistency. These styles usually incorporate the fonts types and sizes, the color schemes that are used, and also the manner in which the medical topics are portrayed. Some medical exhibits companies like to put lots of images on one exhibit panel while other companies like to spread them out over many panels in order to reduce clutter. Usually, the exhibits are prepared with the jury in mind, and are created in a manner which is most advantageous to the jury comprehending the message in the exhibits. Many people believe that the jury possesses a third-grade mentality and that therefore the medical exhibits should be created as if they were being created for a group of grade school kids. This seems to work fine as long as it doesn't jeopardize the integrity of the exhibits. Many times, medical experts will be using the exhibits to explain the medical concepts to the jury, so "dumbing-down" the exhibits is not necessary.
Different types of medical exhibits
Different companies create different types of medical exhibits. Some companies work specifically for defense firms while other companies work specifically for plaintiff firms. The defense exhibits differ from plaintiff exhibits in many ways. Defense exhibits tend to be "cleaner" with less emphasis on injuries and more emphasis on anatomy. Plaintiff exhibits tend to focus more on depicting the pain factor of injuries and making surgeries look as painful as possible. This requires the medical illustrator to sharpen his/her skills accordingly. The defense illustrator will have to learn to use less details and less blood while concentrating more on the message conveyed by the linework and the flat colors. The plaintiff illustrator will sharpen his/her skills by practicing drawing grotesque bloody wounds and incisions. Many plaintiff attorneys request exhibits that show mutilated body parts so the medical illustrators have learned to draw fleshy textures very well. Summary of injury boards are very popular for automobile accidents, and they contain many wounds and broken bones. So medical illustrators learn how to draw broken bones very well also.
This brings us to the topic of skill that are required for medical illustration. Creating medical exhibits requires many skills. The medical illustrator needs to be well trained in anatomy and art. These courses are required for the curriculum of a graduate degree in medical illustration. But beyond the art and anatomy skills, a medical illustrator needs to know how to read x-rays and other radiology films, as well as medical records and operative notes. Operative notes can be difficult to read sometimes because they are dictated by the doctor and recorded by a transcriber. Sometimes the sentences in these notes are difficult to read because they may have words left out or words mispelled. Medical illustrators need to be familiar with all the jargon used in the medical field and know the medical terms and abbreviations for several fields of medicine. Having surgical experience is also a huge asset and will help the medical illustrator to understand the surgeon's operative notes.
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