Secondary Division

Chapter # 89026 Presented By : Austin James Barsatan & Alvin Christian Velez
Waipahu Highschool
Hawai’i HOSA
 CAREER OVERVIEW

Work Description Work Expectations

A Veterinarian is a professional health
worker who works with a broad range Veterinarians are expected to
of animals, ensuring for animal safety be able to effectively
and health. Veterinarians ensure that communicate with pet owners
animals, especially domestic pets about specific medication if
receive the correct care and that their needed. It is also expected that
owners follow the correct dietary Veterinarians will be able to
requirements. Veterinarians around provide treatment plans to
the world focus on providing any diseases that may appear
vaccinations to animals, neutering unexpectedly.
services and control the population of
animals in certain places.
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Work Environments
Veterinarians can work in an array
of different places, which can also
vary at what type of Veterinarian
they are, whether being radiology
or animal welfare. These work
environments can include, but are
not limited to: Treatment centers,
Public Health Institutions, Private
companies, Farms, Research
laboratories and Zoos.
 Career
Responsibilities
Preventative Care is when Veterinarians
A Veterinarian’s job has monitor an animal’s health to make sure that
multiple responsibilities. they’re in good health. This also includes
Their workday can consist checking for illnesses, conducting
a vast array of medical examinations, administering vaccines and
work, which mainly performing dental care. These tasks are used to
include providing help prevent any possible diseases that may
preventative care, happen.
Diagnosing Health Issues is when Veterinarians
diagnosing health issues, diagnose any diseases that may appear on
treating illnesses and animals. They complete their diagnosis by using
injuries, educating about X-rays, blood tests, ultrasounds, urinalysis and
animal care, and keeping etcetera. As a Veterinarian you would have to
records of animal health do animal body inspections to find possible
symptoms for your diagnosis.
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Educating about Animal Care Keeping Animal Records is

is when a Veterinarian teaches very important as a
a new pet owner how to Veterinarian since they have to
maintain their pet’s wellbeing keep a complete history of
and the correct care. vaccinations, treatment
Veterinarians suggest advice schedules, and procedures
on how to keep a balanced diet done on every animal so that
for pets and how to take the the proper care could be given
proper care of their new pets. if a disease ever reappears
again.
 Educational
Requirements
Veterinarians are required to earn a four-year Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine (DVM) degree from an accredited college. This program is a
combination of classroom learning, laboratory work, and clinical
experience. To become a Vet, you must also have a 4 year bachelor’s
degree from a accredited college or university (Preferred to be science
related). This makes the duration of study up to 8 years. Most medical
programs require you to take math and social science courses as well, so it
important to do so. To pursue a veterinary career, you must pass the
North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE), and obtain a
state license to practice veterinary medicine. It is also beneficial to gain
hands-on experience through internships or volunteering at animal
shelters or clinics as it shows other that you have past experience with
animals.
 Educational Requirements
Other Degree requirements:
Gain a good educational foundation in veterinary
related fields such as biology, chemistry, and animal
science
Obtain undergraduate degree to help you prepare for
veterinary school
 Entry Level
Salary

On the Local level, the entry

level salary for Hawaii in the
year 2024, shows a annual
income of $171,976 and a
monthly income of $14,331. On
the National level, The entry
level salary shows an annual of
$165,527 and a monthly income
of $13,973.
 Entry Level
Salary

On The Global Level, It shows as

an entry level income with a
maximum of $120,000-
$100,000 annual income and a
minimum of $25,000-$20,000
annual income.
 Benefits and
Challenges

The benefits that come with working as a Veterinarian is job

stability and the compensation that is given for your work.
The job market for this job is open and more opportunities
keep opening up as time passes. Veterinarians won't likely
run out of jobs soon since people often come to owning a
new pet with more families in America and with the huge
animal kingdom, people all around the world would love to
work with animals. The Benefits for this job are quite equal
to it's challenges, it gives a good compensation for all of the
time you spent in school before the job, and it does allow
some people to travel the world if they choose their role
specifically for that.
 Benefits and
Challenges

On the down side of that, there are still multiple challenges

that come with working as a Veterinarian. A Veterinarian
works long hours like just like a doctor so loads of time
needs to spent working which does cut down on personal
time. Not to mention the time spent to study for the career,
which does make it really hard to work as a Veterinarian.
Despite this, most Veterinarians still end up happy due to
their enjoyment from the job. Many Veterinarians derive
great enjoyment from their job because of their passion for
animals and the difference they make in their health.
 Additional Career information

There are many traits that a Veterinarian should have to be

successful. Some include: love and patience for animals, having
a flexible time availability, and staying organized. It is
important to be patient with animals because they don’t
always have the ability to interpret what we want them to do.
For instance, examinations and treatment. Time availability is
important because sometimes there are sudden emergencies
that animals have, which means you may have to give up
personal time for work. Another trait like being organized is
also crucial because you have to manage many different
animals as a Veterinarian. Therefore, you would have to
separate and manage animal records, data, etc.
 Additional Career information
When it comes to being a Veterinarian, there are a variety of hard and
soft skills that would help you succeed in your career.

Soft Skills include: Hard Skills include:

Good communication Experience in surgical
Empathy procedures
Adaptability Being able to diagnose
Decision Making diseases
Patience Capable in administering
medication
Good understanding in
animal anatomy and
physiology
 Creative and artistic impact
For our Veterinarian career display board, me and my partner
will create a visually engaging presentation that helps the
reader understand out profession better. Our board will consist
of multiple pictures and drawings, representing veterinary
work and tools. We plan on making some cut-out paper fonts to
make visual words to add flavor to some of the major words on
the board. Handmade three dimensional figure will be
presented at the front of the board to add depth to our
illustrations. We will make sure that all words, writing, and
drawings are legible and attached to the board.
 Creative and artistic impact
We want to catch the viewers’ attention by including a variety
of colors to our board and maintaining the Veterinarian theme.
Through all of these factors, we should be able to communicate
and display the career to the audience clearly. Pictures,
illustrations, and models will give the viewers a coherent visual
understanding of the career, and get them to obtain the
knowledge of what a Veterinary is.
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