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[canada_vettobe]

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alright folks, i think our thread needs livening up a bit here. SO......what are your plans after graduating with your DVM? Private practice, academia or industry? I hope to open my own mixed practice, ideally in rural western Canada. The cost issue worries me a bit - how can a young vet with a student loan afford to buy all the equipment necessary to run a clinic? I hope to find someone older to work alongside for a few years and slowly buy into the business. From what I hear there is a need for large animal practitioners in rural areas, so hopefully it won't be too difficult to find someone. Anyway whats everyone else hoping to do?

 

[HeartSong]

Immediately after all my schooling, I want to do animal behavior. Yay, no start up cost with that other than schooling and gas. Then when I have some money or at least have my loans paid off, open up a pet daycare center.

I worked for a vet who was older and he had two clinics. He would hire a vet just out of school to work at one while he worked at the other. Then when the younger vet was ready, they'd go and start their own clinic elsewhere. I've also worked at clinics where vets would work in partnerships or they would hire an extra vet for a few years until they were ready to start their own. So I guess that's a pretty common practice to get started in your own clinic.

I'd like to partner with another behaviorist for a while just until I knew more about it but there seems to be so few around.

 

[PAThbrd]

Hmm, good thread 🙂 When I graduate, I plan on beginning an internship and residency and want to specialize in Equine surgery or possibly reproduction. I want to work in an area with a dense enough equine population to warrant such specialization and would like to work repairing racehorse injuries if I go with surgery, or I would like to operate a farm for problem broodmares and offer full time vet surveillance to get and keep them in foal. Seeing how Im just applying to vet school now, this is all a long way off still 🙂 All will probably be financed through loans, private and business...

 

[pingu1]

I think that after graduating I will work as a municipal vet for some time doing mixed practise as over here it is quite easy to get temporary jobs like that. At the moment I feel that I would like to specialize on small animal practise and later work on a small animal clinic or even have a clinic of my own, perhaps with another vet. I would like to work with cows and horses as well but somehow I can't imagine myself living in countryside for the rest of my life and I'm more interested in small animal surgery anyway.

 

[birdvet2006]

Well my graduation date is less than a year away now, and I'm getting excited. I know exactly what I want to do after I graduate. I want to specialise in avian medicine, so this December I have to apply for an internship. Right now I'm considering various internships and making a rough list of those which interest me. The internship must be in small animal medicine and surgery, rotating.

After the one year internship (I would hear in March 2006 where I'm going), I would apply for a 2-3 year residency. I haven't thought much further than that, as we're talking 3-4 years down the road. I know I'd have to pass the board exam to be a specialist, and then I could look for a job.

I really like small animal medicine too, so I hope to eventually be in a practice that does small animals, with maybe me as an add-on to see birds. After my residency, I may also be more experienced with other exotics and could also see those (I like reptiles, fish, primates and rabbits, and the others could grow on me). On the other hand - I could also see myself in a 100% bird practice if the opportunity ever came up. I'll have experienced two of the approximately 5 of such practices in the US by the next month.

 

[JIKJen124]

I really like this thread! I'm still a year away from applying - I've been bogged down by a formal post-bacc program (which I'm soon bailing out of, in favor of a DIY). My horse that had 9 surgeries on his sinuses pulled me out of my old desk job and back to classroom. When I finally make it to vet school (in Fall of '07 if all goes well), I intend on becoming an equine vet. I'm definitely an emergency med. and surgery addict, so I will probably end up doing an equine surgery residency when the time comes - clearly it's more than a few years away! I have spent the summer working at a major large animal hospital with a primarily equine caseload, which has been more than incredible. I have also worked in a small animal ES which had a huge caseload, and I loved that - so that may also be a possibility.

Jen