[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

My husband is an aquatic animal specialist. Generally, you have have residency in the field you choose. If you go directly to clinics believe me, you work your ass off. All my vet friends tell me how horrific it is. It is NOT the cases, it the owners not doing what you have been trained to identify and solve, then getting pissed about your bill.

If you want to make money, get boarded in pathology or lab animal medicine. Both are VERY DIFFICULT boards and there is a 30% pass rate for the lab animal medicine... For the path board, if you do the AFIP course and study VERY hard, you can do it.

Folks really need vet paths... And surgeons

Working your ass off is an understatement. I'm only in my 1st year and I don't feel like I have a life anymore. I think there's only like 150 or so board certified veterinary clinical pathologist in the US. I think that may include Canada too, so there isn't very many. I can see why. I mean, I think clinical pathologists need at least three years of residency training, and of course that's after 4 years of veterinary school, maybe I should say 4 years of hell, anyway I think it is three years to be eligible to take the board certification exam though. AKA Monet, I don't know. Really I don't even know if I can take much more of this semester and it just started.

If I did go into a specialty program it would be surgery.