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Read about how many apply to become a vet and what awaits them once they qualify, extract from article.
(There's far more to being a vet than just treating pampered poodles and pushing your arm up a cow. Vet expertise is now at a premium in numerous fields.
VETS are playing an important role in the understanding of human diseases because of their expertise in equivalent animal conditions. These so-called "natural models" of human diseases can often tell researchers more about the human equivalent than experimentally induced ailments in mice and rats. They also present fewer ethical problems because the veterinary patients also benefit from the research. Furthermore, in the light of the recent BSE and foot and mouth epidemics, veterinary expertise is at a premium in government as well.

"We're trying to make students think in terms of more than just check shirts and green wellies," says Stuart Carter at the University of Liverpool's Vet School. "They have so much to offer with a vet degree, it seems a shame if they all go straight into practice," he says)
Read the full story. http://www.newscientistjobs.com/site/ns/recnews/article.jsp?id=recruit30

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