What is a medical historian?

A medical historian conducts academic research into medicine and health trends from the past and writes scholarly articles about their findings. As a medical historian, your job duties include researching historical trends in health or medical practices, analyzing historical documents, collecting data, conducting interviews, and contributing to biographies or other reports. The qualifications for a career as a medical historian are a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in medical history. Some medical historians also attend medical school. You need excellent research and writing skills to be a medical historian.