ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Institute of Medical Illustrators

Okay, so you know how sometimes when you go to the doctor's office, they show you pictures on the wall or on a computer of what's going on inside your body? Those pictures are made by a special group of people called medical illustrators.

The Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI) is a big club for all these people who are really good at drawing and creating pictures of things like the human body, diseases, and surgeries. It's like a big group of friends who all have the same job and they help each other to get better at it.

These illustrators use their artistic skills to help doctors explain things to their patients more easily. They make drawings or models of things that are too hard to see or understand just by looking at them, and this helps everyone understand what's going on better.

The IMI is a really cool place because they have lots of resources for medical illustrators to learn more about their job, like classes, conferences, and even awards to recognize when someone does a really good job. So, they help all the medical illustrators become really good at their jobs and help patients and doctors understand more about the body!