Wednesday 1 December 2010

Challenges in veterinary medicine

Our career is full of challenges related with things that are happening right now so is very important to identify them and see what we can do about it.
About technology, is very important this topic because most of the processes involved in veterinary medicine are related with technology. In most studies of new pathogen agents it is very necessary to have a good microscope, machines to grow bacterias and viruses and a lot more. This means that the career needs a lot of technology and depends on this. That's why in our area we have to spend a lot of money to do a better job.

In social matters I think a very important issue is how much the people cares about animals. It's very controversial because not everybody are willing to help animals and they really don't see how important this is. We are working with lives, but those are not human so maybe this is not so important for people. I can't believe that people wants to kill an animal but when someone is stealing, killing and raping that person remains free and alive. People's mind needs to change, and that is the only solution that I see. Unfortunately this is very hard to do.

About education, I think veterinarians need to have more practices. Theory is very necessary, but there is no time for practice. Sometimes I can feel that I'm not learning and that is a problem. Something is happening  with education and we need to fix this right now. Teachers know a lot of things but sometimes they don't know how to transmit all of their knowledge to students. A solution...maybe less investigation and more education. Teachers have to investigate but everytime is less the time for their students.

For this changes we need at least a lot of years..years of economic and social development that is not only related to our career but also to every other careers and people. Challenges are infinite but also necessary to learn and make things a little more interesting, so we have to trascend this challenges in search of new ones.

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  1. Our career is full of challenges related with things that are happening right now so is very important to identify them and see what we can do about it.
    About technology, is very important this topic because most of the processes involved in veterinary medicine are related with technology. In most studies of new pathogen agents it is very necessary to have a good microscope, machines to grow WF bacterias and viruses and a lot more. This means that the career needs a lot of technology and depends on this. That's why in our area we have to spend a lot of money to do a better job.

    In social matters I think a very important issue is how much the people SVA cares about animals. It's very controversial because not everybody SVA are willing to help animals and they really don't see how important this is. We are working with lives, but those are not human so maybe this is not so important for people. I can't believe that people SVA wants to kill an animal but when someone is stealing, killing and raping that person remains free and alive. People's mind needs to change, and that is the only solution that I see. Unfortunately this is very hard to do.

    About education, I think veterinarians need to have more practices. Theory is very necessary, but there is no time for practice. Sometimes I can feel that I'm not learning and that is a problem. Something is happening with education and we need to fix this right now. Teachers know a lot of things but sometimes they don't know how to transmit all of their knowledge to students. A solution...maybe less investigation and more education. Teachers have to investigate but everytime is less the time for their students.

    For this changes we need at least a lot of years..years of economic and social development that is not only related to our career but also to every other careers and people. Challenges are infinite but also necessary to learn and make things a little more interesting, so we have to trascend this challenges in search of new ones.

    Vicky,
    I agree with all your points! I think there are too many challenges
    miss

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