veterinarian

1. veterinarian

2. What is a veterinarian? • Veterinarians diagnose and treat sick or injured animals by providing medical care that includes performing surgery, prescribing medication, dressing wounds, and setting bones. • There are many different types of veterinarians, each with their own areas of expertise.

3. training • To become a veterinarian, you will need to attend an accredited college of veterinary medicine and earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. • You can find the complete list of accredited veterinary colleges here. • https://www.avma.org/education/cvea/colleges_accredited/allcolleges.asp

4. salary Salary range Hourly Wage Annual Wage Upper: $21.39 $44,490 Median: $14.66 $30,500 Lower: $10.23 $21,270 The most important factor is experience. An annual income of over $100,000 might be seen for veterinarians with over 20 years of experience while those new graduates will take home often with less than $60,000. The place of work of a veterinarian can also affect the salary, those who work for pharmaceutical companies have the highest salary while those who work for universities and colleges has the least.

5. Fun facts • ~Approximately 80 percent of admitted students in veterinary schools are female. • ~The word veterinarian comes from the Latin veterinae meaning "working animals". • ~"Veterinarian" was first used in print by Thomas Browne in 1646. • ~Veterinarians were in the fore-front in the effort to suppress malaria and yellow fever in the United States. • ~There are approximately 73 million owned dogs in the U.S. • ~In the United States and Canada, Small Animal Veterinarians predominantly provide medical care for small companion animals, such as cats, dogs, hamsters, birds and rabbits. • ~61 percent of all agents causing disease in humans are zoonotic. • ~61-68 percent of veterinarians will suffer an animal-related injury resulting in hospitalization or significant loss of work during their career.

6. history • The variety of animals the veterinarian will treat, and the animal’s inability to communicate symptoms, make the veterinarian profession more challenging than the practice of human medicine. The study of animal health goes back to ancient times, although it has become more organized since the 1800s. The American Veterinary Medical History Society conducts research on the past of the profession.

7. requirements • To be a vet you will obviously need to have a love for animals. you must be caring and patient with the animals. • Vets need good health and stamina both for the long professional training and the demands of the job. • Vets need courage when dealing with animals that bite, kick and scratch. They need the stamina to work long hours or at night when animals get sick. If they work with large animals, they need physical strength. Veterinarians also require manual dexterity to perform procedures and surgeries on animals.