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do caricatures of teachers and
art work for the class plays."
Today, the three medical il-
lustrators, who lived just
blocks away from each other
when they were children, now
have children of their own
and live miles away: Cutler,
in Ann Arbor; Lubin, in
Bloomfield Hills; and Factor,
in Rochester, Minn.
While college students, all
three artists were interested
in medicine. They found out
that U-M offered a medical il-
lustration program; although
class size was limited to less
than a handful, the three ap-
plied and were admitted.
Lubin and Factor graduated
from U-M in 1975 with
master's degrees in medical
and biological illustration. At
that time, the school accepted
three students a year to the
medical illustration program.
More than 1,500 students in-
quired, and about 60 were in-
vited to send preliminary
slide portfolios.
When Cutler received his
master's degree in 1979 from
U-M, four people graduated
from the program — one stu-
dent more than Lubin and
Factor's 1975 class.
Today, U-M accepts five of
the several hundred students
who inquire about the pro-
gram. Along with U-M's
medical illustration program,
which was established in
1964 by Gerald P. Hodge,
there are four other
American Medical Associa-
tion accredited schools that
offer master's degrees in
medical illustration. Johns
Hopkins University in
Baltimore was the first to
establish a medical illustra-
tion program in 1911 by Ger-
man medical illustrator Max
Broedel. Hodge was a student
of Broedel's at Johns
Hopkins.
Margaret Henry, executive
director of the Association of
Medical Illustrators, in
Midlothian, Va., said that the
average graduating class size
this year in the five schools
was five students.
After receiving a bachelor's
degree in fine arts, first-year
students in the medical il-
lustration program complete
some of the same classes
taken by freshmen medical
students — human gross
anatomy and pathology —
and then continue their
education with classes that
teach how to illustrate using
various techniques.
Henry said that medical il-
lustrators annually earn bet-
ween $20,000 and
$1,000,000-plus, for the top
medical illustrators in the
country.
More than 800 members
belong to the Association of
Medical Illustrators, 400 of
whom have master's degrees.
Twenty-six AMI members
work in Michigan. The ratio
of men to women medical il-
lustrators in the United
States is 50/50.
"It's a very specialized oc-
cupation," Henry said. "Not
only do you have to have com-
petence, but you must also
have artistic ability, scientific
ability and be able to market
your talents."
Marketing her talents is
something Lubin excells in as
a free-lancer. She has had to
literally go knocking on doors
to find the doctors who need
illustrators.
Lubin
has
drawn
everything from traumatic
birth to open-heart surgery to
"The surgeons
would come to me
with an operation
they devised, and
I'd say, 'Let's show
what you did this
way.' . . . I would
do the handwork,
actually painting
it
post-surgical sepsis (infec-
tions that happen after
surgery). Her work is found in
countries all over the world,
including Japan and France,
in medical journals and is us-
ed in advertisements for phar-
maceutical and health in-
surance companies.
Some of her clients include
the pharmaceutical company,
Upjohn, and the insurance
company, Health Alliance
Plan. She also does work for
physicians and attorneys.
"I usually don't know the
specifics of the cases," Lubin
said. "I don't know who's be-
ing sued or the whole story.
Attorneys call and ask me to
draw a baby coming out
breach or with an umbilical
cord around its neck. It's for
the education of the jury, so
they can get a viewpoint of
what happened."
In graduate school, Lubin
taught a human gross
an,-tomy class for
unthrgraduates studying to
be physical therapists and
pharmacists. She dissected
cadavers in class to teach the
students human anatomy.
Although Cutler also free-
lances for attorneys, by inter-
preting X-rays so mediation
panels and jurys can better
understand what's being
presented in a trial, Factor
said he now has no time for
free-lancing.
"Nine-hundred physicians