Is it harder to become a doctor or a vet?

Answer 1

Becoming a Vet is a competitive market, which makes the journey hard. You must first graduate college with a Bachelors degree and have taken the prerequisite pre-vet classes. These classes may seem difficult to some. Each veterinary school has different required courses so be sure to check with your desired school. Once you have graduated college, you then begin the application process into vet school. There are minimal schools in the United States that have the Veterinary Science Degree program. Don't limit yourself and apply to different schools around the world, this will increase your chances of being accepted. Many schools look for higher GPA and GRE test scores. Try to get good grades and participate in extracurricular activities and have the desire to become a vet and you shall succeed!

Answer 2

NO! You have to go through Docter school, which is four more years in college. A total of like eight years. Not that smart of a question. You can't just cut a dog's gut open and just suprisingly know what to do. You need to be trained.

Answer 3

In the United States it is very difficult to become a veterinarian - there are only ~2,000 openings each year across the country for students to start vet school but there are well over 15,000 applicants each year. You have to maintain a very high GPA throughout undergraduate college as well as gain lots of experience working with animals and veterinarians.

Once in vet school, the curriculum is rigorous and fast. I have often described vet school as a method to receive 12-18 hours worth of material to learn in 6-8 hours, five days a week - keep up, or get out.

Answer 4

There are many difficult aspects; I will give just a few of them.

First, while you will have a vast amount of technical and medical knowledge, you are limited in what treatment you can provide to your patients by your client's (the owner's) financial capacity. Dogs with Diabetes can be managed with regular blood sugar monitoring and insulin shots, but there is a monthly cost for the medications and supplies for this. If the owner can't afford to do it, the dog will live with untreated diabetes until it dies of complications of the diabetes. In some instances, like hit-by-car, you may be able to save the animal's life, but the owner can't afford surgery to fix the broken bones so you end up euthanizing the animal.

Second, very few animals read the textbooks about how a disease is supposed to present, what clinical signs are supposed to be present and how it is supposed to respond to treatment. There are refractory cases of diabetes that will not respond to insulin injections, for instance; this can be extremely frustrating.

Third, veterinarians are small business people, with all the attendant headaches such as maintaining staffing levels, disciplining trouble employees, providing benefits and adequate pay schedules, adjusting fee scales to cover operating expenses, etc.

Fourth, not all clients want to listen to the veterinarian telling them they have done something wrong. A classic example of this is the orthopedic surgeon (human physician) who has been treating his dog's Arthritis with daily aspirin. The dog tends to end up in the vet's emergency clinic with a bleeding stomach ulcer caused by the aspirin and requires emergency surgery to save the dog's life. However, the surgeon may not be receptive to hearing that his medical decision may have jeopardized his dog's life.

Answer 5

It can be a difficult job, although most veterinarians tend to feel the positives outweigh the negatives. Some of the bad parts include missed or wrong diagnoses (which everyone has), a surgery or procedure that went wrong, having to euthanize an animal for financial reasons, working very long days then having an emergency come in that takes another three hours to stabilize, etc.

Answer 6

Being a veterinarian is no more challenging than (I presume) being a lawyer, a human medical doctor or a dentist - there are a great deal of situations that become routine with a few exceptional and challenging cases mixed in randomly. However, becoming a DVM is hard - the application process alone weeds out approximately 70% of applicants that are either not qualified or not determined enough to make it through. Once in school, you are presented with 12-18 hours worth of information in 6-9 hours of clock time; you have to learn and understand a good portion of that before the next day, when you will get another 12-18 hours worth of information in 6-9 hours.

Answer 7

Veterinary schools are one of the most hardest schools of education to get into. There are different statistics about the percentage of applicants that qualify to get in but only the best get in.

Answer 8

A veterinarian. A physician only needs to learn to treat one species.

Answer 9

Yes it is hard to get into veterinary program but not impossible even if your grades aren't the best. Make sure you do well in the sciences and maths.