New Veterinarians
Anyone see this article in the NY Times today? Shockingly similar to the issues in psychology. In fact, you could essentially replace the word "veterinarian" in the article with "psychology" and likely have an accurate piece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/b...p-new-veterinarians.html?pagewanted=5&_r=0&hp
Excerpt:
" Today, the ratio of debt to income for the average new vet is roughly double that of M.D.s, according to Malcolm Getz, an economist at Vanderbilt University. To practitioners in the field, such numbers are ominous, and they portend lean times for new graduates.
Were calling for more bodies coming through the veterinary educational pipeline at higher and higher cost at the very point in time that we need fewer and fewer, says Dr. Eden Myers, a vet in Mount Sterling, Ky., who runs the Web site JustVetData, where she crunches numbers about the profession. And they are going to get paid less and less.
For years, the veterinary medical association contended that the United States needed more vets, not fewer, especially in rural areas. To support this view, in 2007, the organization helped underwrite a study, hoping to bolster a call for government assistance to help meet a putative shortfall of 15,000 vets by 2024.
The results, released last year, came to a strikingly different conclusion. Titled Assessing the Current and Future Workforce Needs in Veterinary Medicine and conducted under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found little evidence of vet shortages. It also concluded that the cost of veterinary education is at a crisis point. "
Anyone see this article in the NY Times today? Shockingly similar to the issues in psychology. In fact, you could essentially replace the word "veterinarian" in the article with "psychology" and likely have an accurate piece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/b...p-new-veterinarians.html?pagewanted=5&_r=0&hp
Excerpt:
" Today, the ratio of debt to income for the average new vet is roughly double that of M.D.s, according to Malcolm Getz, an economist at Vanderbilt University. To practitioners in the field, such numbers are ominous, and they portend lean times for new graduates.
Were calling for more bodies coming through the veterinary educational pipeline at higher and higher cost at the very point in time that we need fewer and fewer, says Dr. Eden Myers, a vet in Mount Sterling, Ky., who runs the Web site JustVetData, where she crunches numbers about the profession. And they are going to get paid less and less.
For years, the veterinary medical association contended that the United States needed more vets, not fewer, especially in rural areas. To support this view, in 2007, the organization helped underwrite a study, hoping to bolster a call for government assistance to help meet a putative shortfall of 15,000 vets by 2024.
The results, released last year, came to a strikingly different conclusion. Titled Assessing the Current and Future Workforce Needs in Veterinary Medicine and conducted under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found little evidence of vet shortages. It also concluded that the cost of veterinary education is at a crisis point. "
