VETERINARIAN

HISTOTY AND BACKGROUND OF THE CAREER.

• In the United States, the first schools were established in the early 19th century in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. In 1879, Iowa Agricultural College became the first land grant college to establish a school of veterinary medicine.
• The first attempts to organize and regulate the practice of treating animals tended to focus on horses because of their economic significance. In the Middle Ages from around 475 CE, farriers combined their work in horseshoeing with the more general task of "horse doctoring".
• The first veterinary college was founded in Lyon, France in 1762 by Claude Bourgelat.This resulted in his founding a veterinary college in Lyon in 1761, from which establishment he dispatched students to combat the disease; in a short time, the plague was stayed and the health of stock restored, through the assistance rendered to agriculture by veterinary science and art.
• The physician James Clark wrote a treatise entitled Prevention of Disease in which he argued for the professionalization of the veterinary trade, and the establishment of veterinary colleges. Suzanne Saueressig became the first accredited female veterinarian in Missouri in 1955.

REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THE CAREER

• Earning your Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree typically takes four years of study after undergraduate school.
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• Adrian college has a biology program where you study the functions and body parts of animals
• To going into this job field is to go to college for four years and study of animals and do apprenticeships
• For this job you will need to have a outgoing personality most of your time will be taken up because of work or you need to know the basic medical skills to be successful in this career.
• You have a great appetite I need you to go in this career because you get to help animals and help people take care of their animals.
• A zoologist, a medical doctor, and a animal trainer are jobs that is connected with being a veterinarian.

JOB POSITION DESCRIPTION

• Basically you have to clean the animals kennel feed them and take them outside for exercise.
• You can have organize company. where pet owners can bring their animals in the job where they will take care of the medical to make sure everything is ok with the animal.
• A basic workday hour is from the morning to the afternoon and it will be located at a veterinary center these centers are closed at night.
• salaries ranged from a low of $50,480 per year, or $24.27 per hour, to a high of $141,680 annually, or $68.11 hourly, according to the BLS. The mean wages for 55,410 vets was $91,250 yearly, or $43.87 per hour.
• Clean collared shirt (ie: polo shirt) with no logo, or plain scrub top. Clean pants (preferably not blue jeans) no holes, or tears. Clean closed toe shoes. If planning to observe the equine facilities please bring appropriate outdoor attire. Warm work jacket, winter boots, hat, and mittens
• There are plenty of jobs available if you are a veterinarian. You will easily land up getting a job just after the completion of your studies, as long as you are not very particular about the location of the job. Most of the veterinarians get into independent practice. Also gamut of job options is available to choose from, ranging from government hospitals to independent clinics, from poultry farms to NGOs and Being a veterinarian can pay you very well..

JOB REFLECTION AND OUTLOOK

• - The course duration is too long. If you want to become a veterinary surgeon, then you need to go for a 4-5 years program in veterinary sciences and animal husbandry. And then in order to get good opportunities, you might also consider going for a Masters which again takes 2 years. In this way, it takes almost 7 years after your high school before your career actually starts paying you.
• The work of a veterinarian is both physically and mentally demanding. And sometimes emotionally too.
• Quick Facts: Veterinarians 2015 Median Pay $88,490 per year $42.54 per hour Typical Entry-Level Education Doctoral or professional degree Work Experience in a Related Occupation None On-the-job Training None Number of Jobs, 2014 78,300 Job Outlook, 2014-24 9% (Faster than average) Employment Change, 2014-24 6,900.
• Demand for veterinarians and veterinary medical services is demonstrating a definitive upward trend across the profession, led by a remarkable in-crease in consumers' willingness to spend on animal health care.Supply is also expanding through increased enrollments at colleges and schools of veterinary medicine and increased productivity and efficiency in private practice. Veterinarians' incomes are increasing, and some sectors of the profession offer outstanding financial opportunities.
• Jobs dealing with being a veterinary would not change a lot in the near future.
• Jefferson Veterinary Center is a veterinarian center where they treat sick and injured animals and rehabilitate them to health.
• This career helps animals when there are injured or sick and it helps the owner of the animals be aware of their animals health.

WORK CITED

• http://www.careerride.com/view/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-vete...
• https://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/heritage-and-history/history-of-the-veterinar...
• http://www.jeffersonvet.com
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_medicine