>> I think that if somebody is in high school or in college and thinking about going
into the veterinary profession, then one of the best ways to prepare is to actually work
in a clinic and get some experience and see what the profession is all about.
Plus you're going to have to do that to apply to apply to vet school.
They want a certain amount of classes taken; those are called your prerequisites,
but they're also going to want to see that you've actually worked in the profession
in some way, so you know a little about what you're getting into.
So vet school happens usually after college.
You can in some instances do a two-year college program and go right
into a vet school, so for instance, I'm you know.
I got my degree at Virginia Maryland, and that's Virginia Tech to most people,
and they have a two-year Animal Science Degree, and then you go right into vet school.
But for most people they've done four years of college
and then they go into four years of vet school.
Vet schools, to apply to them, they're going to have a certain number of prerequisite classes
that you need to take, and that includes things like organic chemistry, biology,
those classes for the basic sciences, and so a lot of people coming into that school
if they've been in college are biology majors, animal science majors,
or possibly chemistry majors, but they're usually heavy on the science.
I think if you're going to be successful it does come down to communication,
because if you can't relate to someone what you need to do and why you need to do it,
and what the outcome is going to be and what the expectations are going to be;
if you can't communicate-- you could be like the best vet in the world as far figuring it out
and fixing the pet, but the-- if the owner can't understand that, then that's not--
it's not going to be a successful situation.