If you've ever wondered what's its like to be a veterinarian, this article is for you.
It is a very challenging and stressful working environment. It is not a job for the faint hearted, you'll need to control your emotions if you see a severely beat up animal or one who is about to die.
Veterinarians provide medical services for animals. They also give advice to pet owners about the care and breeding of their pets. Most veterinarians treat sick pets and provide routine check-ups and shots for pets in private offices. Veterinarians must be tuned in to the animal’s discomfort. They must be able to calm and reassure frightened animals. Since animals cannot communicate their symptoms to the doctor, veterinarians must depend on their own and the owners’ observations to make their diagnoses.
Here is a list of tasks that Veterinarians do every day. Examine animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries. Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, or performing surgery. Collect body tissue, feces, blood, urine, or other body fluids for examination and analysis. Inoculate animals against various diseases such as rabies or distemper. Operate diagnostic equipment, such as radiographic or ultrasound equipment, and interpret the resulting images.
Veterinarians often work in public clinics, private clinics or even alone.
You can apply in an Animal Health Technology Program at Lionel-Groulx College or at Vanier College. These colleges offer a 3-year training program. Upon finishing this program, you'll have to apply to a University in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Montreal. This program offers 5 years of training before you become a certified Veterinarian.
A veterinarian makes between $60,000 and $150,000, which is roughly $45/hour.
There is no additional training. Everything is learned through college and university.
Animal-Induced Injuries, animal behavior is often hard to predict, and when animals are frightened or otherwise under stress, they can lash out in a variety of ways. Veterinarians risk getting bitten, kicked, scratched, etc. Diseases, veterinarians risk exposure to a number of disease-causing pathogens in their everyday work. X-Ray Exposure and Chemical Hazards, in addition to accidental X-ray exposure, veterinarians risk exposure to a number of chemicals, including anesthetic gases, hazardous drugs, disinfectants, etc.
It is very unlikely that veterinarians will be replaced by robots, even though we understand a lot about animal behavior and maintain an encyclopedic record of animal diseases and medications, what any given animal will do at the moment is pretty unpredictable, so a robot would have trouble adjusting when things didn’t go as planned. Veterinarians also need to have a deep connection to animals in order to be successful, something that robots can’t have.
Veterinarians don't make all that much money, so they can't retire as soon as a doctor would. Those in the profession loves what they do, and generally stay until they can't do the job anymore. 65+ is not at all uncommon. Basically, you can stay as long as you want or can.
If you really love animals and you wish to take care of them, this job is for you!
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