What are some good extracurricular activities an aspiring medical illustrator?

Does anyone know of any volunteer or extracurricular activities that would help with someone going towards the medical illustrator path? I’m currently in a few art clubs, but I’m a little confused on what I could do for the science side.

I don’t know about extracurricular activities, and my artist daughter is not a medical illustrator, although qualified to be one. Classical realist-atelier training would be a good background–the ability to draw anything–and a thorough knowledge of anatomy. My daughter attained her knowledge of the human body by sculpting every muscle, tendon and bone in the human body. So, a sculpture course where this is taught might make a good “extracurricular” activity.