LINKS AND RESOURCES

Indexed Visuals' featured Medical Illustrator list
Here you will find a listing of IV's featured medical illustrators, many of whom are certified medical illustrators. Browse this list and navigate to their listings on IV and/or visit their personal websites.

Pricing of medical illustration
Image pricing is based on usage.  Images listed in IV's stock database or on artists portfolios are not royalty free, free, or clip art. These images are produced by some of the leading talents in the profession. When requesting a pricing quote...

AMI -  The Association of Medical Illustrators
The Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) is an international organization founded in 1945. Its members are primarily medical artists who create material designed to facilitate the recording and dissemination of medical and bioscientific information through visual communication media. It is the trade organization in the United States for the profession.

AMI

AEIMS - Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques
In 1986 The Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques (AEIMS) was founded in Strasbourg. It's aims were to bring together artists,medical illustrators and sculptors working in medical education and the life sciences.
AEIMS meets somewhere in Europe each year, usually linking the conference with one of the European training institutes. The meeting is always great fun and increasingly worthwhile as the years pass. Momentum started in the early eighties within l’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France under the leadership of Pierre Kuentz. Quite quickly others became involved, Giliola Gamberini, and her school in Bologna, Patrick McDonnel who is Canadian but was working in Paris at the time, Doig Simmonds and Jenny Halstead from the U.K.

MAA- Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain
The Association was founded in 1949 and is the professional body for Medical Illustrators and Artists in the UK. Our trained members possess the specialist combination of technical artistic ability with a comprehensive knowledge of medicine and science, thus providing a smooth communication between artist and client. They are skilled in numerous fields ranging from traditional and digital illustration to facial reconstruction for research and forensic science....

Wikipedia - Medical Illustration listing
A medical illustrator is a professional artist who interprets and creates visual material to help record and disseminate medical, biological and related knowledge. Medical illustrators not only produce such material but can also function as consultants and administrators within the field of biocommunication. A certified medical illustrator attains extensive training in medicine and science.....

The Vesalius Trust
The Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences was incorporated as a non-profit public foundation in 1988. Established under the direction of the Board of Governors of the Association of Medical Illustrators, a professional organization of medically-trained visual communicators, the Trust strives to develop and support education and research programs in the field of health science communications.

History of the Trust
The Association of Medical Illustrators sought to establish a public educational foundation for the purpose of raising and maintaining funds to be used for developing and supporting education and research within the field of medical illustration and related visual communication professions, and for advancing education and communication in medicine and the health sciences. Since its founding in 1988, the Trust has endeavored to identify and secure funding for educational and research activities in visual communications in the health sciences, and to act as a conduit for these resources. Currently, the Trust supports: scholarships, research grants, continuing professional education, and an international recognition program for exceptional contributions to medical education.

Mission of the Trust
To provide leadership for the advancement of education and research in visual communication for the health sciences.