At the time of this page update, these results include data from 77 responses to my Google Form survey. The survey was shared on my personal LinkedIn page, my personal social media accounts, directly with some of my colleagues via email, and in several Medical Visualization and Medical Communications-related Discord servers.
This survey was intended for early career professionals in Medical Visualization, which I defined in the survey as “an umbrella term that includes medical illustration, medical animation, med-legal, medical design work, scientific illustration/animation, VR/AR, interactive development, project management for medical design, etc.” and encouraged respondent to specify in the “other” option for questions where they were unsure which answers to select. I also specified that the survey was intended for people who “graduated in the past 5 years from a Master's Program in medical visualization, or if you did not attend a Master's program but began your medical visualization career in the past 5 years” but received several responses that indicated that they began their careers before 2020. These responses will not be included in the data collection sections, but any advice they offered will be included below.
I would like to note that I did “clean” the data - if there was an option that applied to a respondent but they chose to write in their answer, for the purposes of the data I assigned them to the category that applied to them. E.g. the respondent who wrote in that they “got lucky and a friend of a friend happened to know of a job” was assigned to the category “I received my job through the typical job application process and/or non-medical visualization affiliated networking”.
If you would like to see the full dataset collected from the survey, it can be found in this Google Sheet.
My personal notes/observations/analysis will be in purple blocks :)
Comments/elaborations from respondents will be included in blue blocks in the relevant sections. All comments are included down in the 🗨️Results - Comments section.
Respondents were asked the following:
“Which of the following best describes you?
If full receipt of your Master's Degree is still pending successful defense of your research but all courses have been completed, select as if you have fully graduated.”
Most of the respondents were from UIC - because I went to UIC and that’s who I had in my network.
Important note - there are currently 5 graduate programs accredited by the AMI in North America, and they all accept different numbers of students per year. On average, these are the class sizes for the past 5 graduating classes:
Augusta: 9 UIC: 20 Toronto: 17 Johns Hopkins: 7 RIT: 6
Respondents were asked the following:
“If you graduated from a Master's Degree program, what year did you graduate?”