CHALLENGES!

In my opinion veterinary is one of the hardest and wonderful carriers that anyone can choose, it needs a lot of vocation and effort, also I think it can be the carrier more complete because vets have to know everything about many species, and with more work areas.

However, veterinary has some challenges especially in countries like Chile, and now I will talk about that, the challenges that vets are facing in Chile.

First, the technology challenge. Well, Chile is not a very advance country therefore it does not have full access to advance technology, I mean that in some places may have very good technology but no everyone have access to them, nevertheless, Chile is becoming a developing country, so maybe today in veterinaries or in universities that have that carrier doesn´t have advance technology, but it is probably that soon that won´t be a problem.

Second, I will refer to social matters; I think Chilean people are still too ignorant in many areas. Many people think that veterinary is an easy discipline, but they don´t know all the classes that we have to take and that they are very very hard, even at the level of human medicine, and even more, because doctors have to know just about humans and they are not self-sufficient, because they have nurses, in veterinary we have to know about dogs, horses, cows, etc. I think it is not so important that everyone know all the things that we can do, the most important thing it is that we demonstrate that we are the best in what we do and also that we have vocation for this.

Finally, I will talk about educational challenges. To begin with, as I already said, Chile is becoming a developing country, however it still have some lacks, like in education, nevertheless, that it is more in schools, and not in Universities, especially in the “Universidad de Chile” which is a very prestigious University in Chile, but in national matters, there is not too much emphasis in knowing more about some new areas in veterinary, for example better courses about exotic animals or in ethology. In my point of view, the problem is conformism and, of course, the lack of money. One way to solve this might be showing the important job that we are doing, and the important role of the animals, like dog and horses, in society.