This will depend on the type of practice and the clinic's hours. A rural large animal ambulatory veterinarian can work most of the hours, day and night, all weekend long. An urban small animal clinic veterinarian that has a local emergency clinic available and no regularly scheduled weekend appointments may work no weekend hours.
A veterinarian can work at an animal hospital, but he can also work at his own clinic or office, and might have a practice providing care to farm animals, or work at a zoo.
The work setting of a clinic veterinarian is mainly an exam room. They also would visit waiting rooms on occasion.
In the United States, a private practice veterinarian can expect to work 9-11 hour days 5-6 days a week. Depending on the clinic, the veterinarian may also work nights and weekends covering emergency calls.
Yes, you have to have a doctorate in veterinary medicine to be a veterinarian.
This varies widely depending upon where the clinic is at and where the veterinarian lives at. A typical commute is probably 20-30 minutes, although some veterinarians live at their clinic and some veterinarians travel over an hour each way to get to work.
No, although it is becoming more common for multiple veterinarians to work for a single clinic and therefore work for another veterinarian. Also, newly graduated veterinarians tend to be employed by another veterinarian and treat their first year or so after graduation as approximately a paid apprenticeship, as they learn and hone their skills under a more experienced veterinarian.
The animal doctor is a veterinarian.Someone who served in the armed forces is a veteran.The verb vet means to examine or scrutinize.
In the United States, the answer is no one - a veterinarian can open his/her own clinic and be the solo owner veterinarian of it as soon as he/she graduates from vet school. Unlike human medicine, there is no requirement for a veterinarian to complete an internship after graduating from vet school.
First you train to be regular veterinarian. Then you specialize. For some species, there is no formal training. You have to find a clinic that work with those animals, get employed there and learn from others.
There are several options. The most common is, you would be working for another veterinarian who owned the clinic you worked at. Alternatively, you could be self-employed as the owner of your own clinic. Otherwise, veterinarians work in a variety of industries and government, at which point they work for whomever signs their paychecks (Federal government, private industry, military, NGO, consultant, etc.).
People that become a veterinarian usually stay one their entire career. Becoming a veterinarian is not easy. It takes a lot of work and education.