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Vets look after many different kinds of animals and try to treat them of their illness, but what else does the job involve?

It can take just as long to become a veterinary surgeon as it can to become a docotor, as after school you need to attend four years of college and then four years of veterinary school to begin with. Getting a placement at an animal hospital can help with credit, but it wont make your time any shorter actually in college. There are only 28 schools that have veterinary places in the US, so trying to get in can be difficult. You will learn about the different illnesses and also the numerous amounts of different animal species you may have to treat. As a vet you will have to study quite a lot of animal anatomy -rodents, birds, canines felines and others. This is without even including the fact that you may want to consider specialising in a particular speices. The final vet test is the same as the bar test in law, as you cant be a vet without passing that test. Think carefully over which state to do the state exam in, as many of them wont give you the right to practice in the other states.

Vets also have to keep as up to date as they possibly can on all the new methods and techinques to best serve their patients. What may surpise people is that vets also have to take an oath, exactly like doctors, pledging to do their best to help all animals. Yes, the hours are long, but the worse thing about being a vet may be having to put down an animal that you cannot save. So if that fact horrifies you, this may not be the job you looking for.

So, if this sound like a career you really feel you have the passion to do, you may want to think about becoming a veterinary surgeon.

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