We had the first meeting of the Lab Animal Medicine club today. And I'm very excited about the prospect of working with lab animals!
There are so many different kinds of things you could end up doing in lab animal medicine-- from governing type work (writing Good Laboratory Practices, GLPs) to taking care of animals used in reasearch to doing your own research projects. Also, it's a field that is in desperate need of new recruits (meaning that there's lots of available positions!) and it's in the top 2 most highly paid veterinary positions (starting salary is somewhere around $100,000!)
The downside? A 2-3 year residency then taking boards. (However, the residency does defer your student loans and pay enough to live on...)
So, this seems like a really great possibility! Now I just need to figure out what it takes to be competetive for lab animal medicine residencies!
Also, next weekend I'm going to an Wildlife Orphanage in San Antonio to watch a panther declaw and tour their facilities with the AAFP (American Association of Feline Practitioners). I'm pretty excited!
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That sounds so cool! As does the panther declaw!
I love vet school updates :)
You write very well.
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