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You would need to attend a school of veterinary medicine if you wanted to become a veterinarian.
Yes, working as a veterinary assistant or veterinary technician would count as experience for application to the UCDavis vet school.
I would like to go to veterinary school. Do I need to take a special entrance exam for admission?I would like to go to veterinary school. Do I need to take a special entrance exam for admission?I would like to go to veterinary school. Do I need to take a special entrance exam for admission?
For modern veterinary medicine, this would be Dr. Claude Bourgelat. He founded the first modern school of veterinary medicine in Lyon, France in 1862.
You would need to attend an accredited college of veterinary medicine in Norway. However, I am not familiar with the specific requirements for admission to veterinary school in Norway.
It does not appear that Harvard has a dedicated pre-veterinary medicine program at this time (Fall 2012). However, there is a student organization for pre-vet students. You do not have to complete a dedicated pre-veterinary medicine program to apply for and be accepted to vet school. You simply have to complete the pre-requisites for the schools you wish to apply to.
Being an experienced veterinary technician will give you a leg up, but you still need to get a bachelor's degree (preferably in a science) and get into and successfully complete veterinary school. See the related question on what is need to be a veterinarian.
A veterinary assistant usually has a two year associate's degree. The job entails dealing with customers, their pets and the details of running the office.
You would have to go and undergraduate school with premed or biology classes, then go to veterinary school and specialize in equine medicine.http://study.com/equine_veterinarian_schools.html
This will depend upon where in the world you are. In North America, an equine surgeon would be a veterinarian who is board certified in equine (horse) surgery. Outside of North America, the term veterinary surgeon refers to any graduate of an accredited veterinary school and an equine veterinary surgeon would be an individual who primarily or exclusively cares for horses.
The US Army Veterinary Corps provides food safety and security inspections for all of the Armed Services. This unit is responsible for providing care to Military Working Dogs, ceremonial horses, working animals of many Department of Homeland Security organizations, and pets owned by service members. In order to serve there, you must be a graduate of an accredited school of veterinary medicine in the United States, or, if a graduate of a foreign veterinary school, successfully complete certification by the Education Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates. In the ROTC program... you would go to college first and then serve out your contract.
Yes, in general a veterinary technician would be paid more than a veterinary assistant.