The main challenges in Veterinary Medicine, are in the health area: open heart surgery for example. In Chile there is not animal's open heart surgery, only for humans. I think that it would be an excellent area to work with. The heart in animals is only studied in situ, with an animal death, just auscultating outside, i mean listen the chest or in the books. This is a challenge for the investigation, the science, and the veterinary medicine of course.
Another challenges, in Veterinary Medicine, in topics like education, are the vocational professional o vocational training. Some "teachers" in the practice of small animals (i write "teachers" because the majority of them are graduated Vets, and they are in charge just of medical consulting, and not pedagogy), are quite bighead, some of them they haven't patience to teach us, they forgot of they also was students like all of us and all we want to do is learn. With this i don't say that every graduated Vet is bighead, i just complaining of some Vets behavior.
Also in education challenges, i think that the teachers in this faculty in particularly, have to do a pedagogy courses or master degrees in pedagogy, etc., because they can be an excellent experts in their areas, but if they can't teach us or through their knowledge, means that we can't learn in a good form their subjects.
There is so many challenges in our area, but depend of we, the new generations do it well and make it come true.
26 May 2011 at 19:46
I agree with you in many points overcoat about the teachers in the faculty, they know much about them areas of work but sometimes they don´t know teach nothing. I have a good example of this but I can´t say him name for my protection jijiji
27 May 2011 at 16:43
Well... maybe someday people will value enough animals, to pay for open heart cirgury, because if the owners won't pay, we can't do it :S
23 June 2011 at 11:44
The main challenges in Veterinary Medicine, are in the health area: open heart surgery for example.
In Chile there is not animal's open heart surgery, only for humans. I think that it would be an excellent area to work with. The heart in animals is only studied in situ, with an animal death, just auscultating outside, i mean WFlisten ^ the chest or in the books. This is a challenge for the investigation, the science, and the veterinary medicine of course.
Another challenges, in Veterinary Medicine, in topics like education, are the vocational professional o vocational training. Some "teachers" in the practice of small animals (i write "teachers" because the majority of them are graduated Vets, and they are in charge just of medical consulting, and not pedagogy), are quite bighead, some of them they haven't ^ patience to teach us, they forgot of they also was students like all of us and all we want to do is learn. With this i don't say that every graduated Vet is bighead, i just complaining of some Vets behavior.
Also in education challenges, i think that the teachers in this faculty in particularly, have to do a pedagogy courses or master degrees in pedagogy, etc., because they can be an excellent experts in their areas, but if they can't teach us or through their knowledge, means that we can't learn in a good form their subjects.
There is so many challenges in our area, but depend of we, the new generations do it well and make it come true.
Clau,
I agree I think teaching courses should be reinforced!
miss