The reason why I wanted start the career in veterinary medicine is the same from many others: I like so much animals. This attraction started long time ago, when I just was a little boy. I liked everything about animals, especially the wild ones. I loved to read fabula, watch teacher Rossa’s tv show and documentals, collect albums, play with dogs and animals from my grandparents’s farm, etc, etc.
I wanted to do something for the animals and I chose the medicine area for to do it, because I found very interesting.
Well,,,The last year I had a break point on my decision about studing veterinary medicine. The Fact was that I really dont like clinics and animal production. It was difficult to me to accept it very much. I felt lost and I didn’t want to do anything. I leave the classrooms and started to found me. I wanted enter in other career: Environmental Biology, because I could work with animals through a point of view more about population than individuals and to guard for their conservation, but talking with teachers from that career I came to the conclution that I could to do the same things studing veterinary, and I also could have a plus: the medical knowledge. I like medicine , it was only a fear, because I still don’t wanna be a clinic man.
Currently, my future vision is practise the veterinaty like a epidemiologist. I want to guard the public health and control the disease of the populations. This is a way to contribute to society like a veterinary doctor, but there’s many others, like keeping pets healthy, develop comercial and food products, contribute to the Scientist knowledge, etc.
With all the environmental and demographic problems, like global warming, habitats destruction, Increase of the population, etc, the relation between animals and man, the emergent diseases and the need for more foods, are becoming topics very importants everyday, I think the veterinaries are entering hardly in the national problems and interdiscipline teams will be necessary to approach the problems.
