One of the Coolest (and Often Unknown) Aspects of Vet Med Is:

The sheer amount of variety in this profession. For instance, being a veterinarian, you can be: 

-> A general practitioner. 

-> A veterinarian working for the CDC to combat bio-terrorism. 

-> A researcher that works in a human hospital to make advances in human and animal health. 

-> An oncologist. 

-> A zoo and/or wildlife veterinarian.

-> A veterinary dentist. 

-> An anatomical pathologist that performs necropsies (autopsies) and analyzes and interprets tissue samples.  

-> An orthopedic surgeon.  

-> A state veterinarian who monitors foreign animal diseases and promotes public health.  

-> A veterinarian inspecting and keeping our meat and livestock products safe for human use and consumption 

-> A poultry veterinarian. 

-> A radiologist that interprets CT scans, MRIs, and radiographs (x-rays).

-> An equine surgeon.

-> An emergency and critical care specialist. 

-> A cardiologist. 

And the list goes on and on and on. The variety of this career continues to astound me, and I know wherever I end up, there will always be other doorway of opportunities available to me to advance my passion for vet med, and my career.

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How to survive vet school: I should study how much?

At the beginning of the year our phase coordinator told us that the average vet student will spend 50 hours a week studying. This number dose not include hours spent in lecture or lab. 

This number is in addition to lecture and lab time. In addition too the 20-40 hours we spend in lecture/lab every week. 

When he was referring to the “average” vet student, he was referring to a vet student who gets average grades. He was not using average to describe the typical vet student. Which is well and good because a large proportion of vet students probably find themselves studying more then that. 

This begs the question do vet student really need to study this much in order to do well? 

It depends; as with most things, you cannot give a one word answer that rings true to all. How many hours you need to put into studying depends on a few things: 

I can honestly say, apart from preparing for finals, I have never spent 50 hours (in addition to lectures/labs) studying and my grades have not suffered for it. 

In reality, if you’re struggling with how many study hours you need to put in during a week, and still not seeing results you want. It may be a good idea to consider the above list and see if there’s anything in your routine that you can change, so that’s not the case.  

Stay tuned, for part 2 of this post with the working title: studying in vet school, a how to guide, by someone who’s procrastinating studying for her three tests next week. This will be followed closely by instalment 3 of this series with the working title: why should I take this persons advice on how to study when she is so clearly not studying?  

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What my daily pep talks have turned into

Financially, you could start at community college to ease overall financial burden. This track should allow you to finish general education requirements for a 4yr degree (likely animal science or exclusively prevet Bachelor’s depending on your college) literally for cheaper. Make sure the general education courses transfer to your institution of interest and fulfill credits needed for your program. Not all math and sciences classes are equal between school systems, so make sure they transfer to avoid repeating courses.

Community college is a great place to complete standard genEd things like basic biology, calculus and physics requirements, as well as liberal arts based genEds like writing and communication requirements. Your pocket book will thank you.

Although normally I would agree with the community college route or anything @je-suis-manatee saying in general(;*). When trying to get into a professional program(Vet school, med school, etc.) They look at if you are able to handle a heavy work load. Under the assumption that anyone could get an A in Organic Chem if thats the only class they had only to come to vet school and now you have Phyiso, Anatomy, and Immuno and still trying to get an A . So although Community College MIGHT be a cheaper route in the short run, In the long run it might not be advantageous if you are looking to further your education to obtain a career

But to be fair, community college isn’t just part time college for many people. Most basic sequences, like biology, physics, basic chem and calculus are prereqs for a lot of programs regardless. And are prereqs for vet/med prereqs like OChem, A&P, etc. 12 - 16 Credits of community college is no less expected work than 12 - 16 Credits of 4yr college. There’s nothing “less” about the workload unless you take less of a workload.

I definitely think that doing the first 2 years of an undergraduate degree via community college is a great option and should be accepted by the majority of veterinary schools.  I only meant to point out that transferring from community college directly to veterinary school does not seem to be an option, at least not that I have heard from anyone.  Some time in a 4-year-university – not necessarily 4 years – does seem to be a requirement as far as I know.