20 17 how about applying for the major of animal medicine? 1. Professional analysis
What is animal medicine major?
Animal medicine major is a traditional major in agriculture, which is to cultivate in a popular way? Veterinarians? Occupation, also used the name of veterinary occupation. Students majoring in animal medicine mainly study the basic theories, knowledge and skills of animal medicine. This major trains scientific and technological talents who can engage in veterinary work, epidemic prevention and quarantine, teaching and scientific research in veterinary business departments, animal production units and related departments.
Animal medicine specialty is a comprehensive discipline based on biology, which studies the occurrence and development of animal diseases, and carries out the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases on this basis. Its basic task is to effectively prevent and treat diseases of animals, companion animals, medical experimental animals and other ornamental animals. It is an important part of biomedicine and social preventive medicine.
Animal medicine major mainly includes basic medicine, preventive medicine and clinical medicine. Basic medicine mainly studies pathology, pharmacology and tissue section; Preventive medicine mainly focuses on the research of bacteria, viruses and vaccines; Clinical medicine mainly has hands-on ability to check, diagnose and treat diseases for pets. Among these three directions, clinical medicine has become the first choice for many students majoring in animal medicine because of its strong professionalism and high employment rate.
What qualities do students need?
To learn animal medicine, we must first understand the organisms of different animals and study the pathogenic factors that cause animal diseases, so as to prevent and quarantine animal diseases. Therefore, in the process of learning animal medicine, many animal experiments and animal autopsies will inevitably come into contact, which requires students to have good psychological quality, be serious, bold, careful and meticulous, and have strong practical ability, strong curiosity and research spirit.
Although animal medicine and human medicine are aimed at different objects, they have similar basic knowledge systems, rich professional courses and more knowledge points to master.
Two. Occupation and employment
Being a pet doctor is a prejudice.
In recent years, people's living standards have been continuously improved, the number of pets has gradually increased, and the demand for small animal medical talents has greatly increased. People often have the illusion that in learning? Animal medicine? I think I will graduate to be a pet doctor in the future. In fact, the prevention and treatment of livestock and poultry diseases in livestock farms and pastures requires a large number of animal medicine professionals besides working as pet doctors, which is one of the main employment fields for graduates of this major.
Animal medicine not only provides a guarantee for large-scale animal husbandry, but also provides certain technical support for epidemic prevention and food safety of human diseases. Many deadly infectious diseases of human beings come from animals, and the development of animal medicine can build a better safety barrier for human beings. For example, 1996 After the discovery of mad cow disease in Britain, the European Commission immediately banned the export of British beef and instructed Britain to slaughter and destroy all 400 million cows over 30 months old. Moreover, animal medicine also extends to medicine, biology, aquatic biology, environmental protection, aerospace medicine and other fields, and is more closely integrated with biology and medicine.
There are many graduates of animal medicine every year, but in terms of employment, less than 20% are actually engaged in clinical work. In addition to postgraduate entrance examination and going abroad, a large number of students go to entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau, agriculture bureau, animal husbandry bureau, local animal health supervision office, veterinary stations at all levels, animal experiment centers, biological companies, veterinary drug factories, vaccine factories, feed factories and other units to engage in animal breeding, animal reproduction, health and epidemic prevention, animal food and animal products inspection, and veterinary biopharmaceuticals development. Undergraduate graduates also do more related sales, and most of them do research and development or clinical work.
Match income with experience and ability.
According to the employment data released by the Ministry of Education, the number of graduates majoring in animal medicine is 7000-8000, and the undergraduate employment rate is 85%-90%, with 52% boys and 48% girls.
Of course, the employment rate of this major in famous universities is relatively high, and the job destination is relatively stable. Take China Agricultural University as an example. Every year, about 50% of the graduates from Animal Medical College continue their studies, of which about 40% stay in our school for postgraduate study and 65,438+00% go abroad for further study. The graduates of this school have a high professional counterpart rate, and the employment rate and signing rate reach 100%. The initial employment rate of undergraduate students majoring in animal medicine in Northwest A&F University is over 90%, and the postgraduate entrance examination rate has been greatly improved, which has remained above 45% in recent years.
According to Dean Liu, working experience in animal clinical medicine is very important, and income is generally proportional to experience and ability. Take the pet hospital as an example. At present, most animal hospitals are private, and they all want mature veterinarians when recruiting. The monthly salary of newly graduated students is only about 3,000 yuan. Business owners, animal hospital directors or clinical practitioners who have more than 10, especially those who have their own expertise in some specialties, will develop well in the industry. Veterinary profession should be learned from old age. If you want to make a difference in this profession, it is suggested that you should study animal therapy in depth on the basis of practicing basic skills. As long as you have superb skills, the development prospect is still quite good.
Third, the application guide
More than 60 colleges and universities offer this major.
At present, there are three agricultural colleges in Beijing: China Agricultural University, Beijing Agricultural College and Beijing Agricultural Vocational College, which are a batch of undergraduates, a batch of undergraduates and a junior college. Among the two undergraduate colleges, China Agricultural University has relatively few enrollment plans for animal medicine, and the admission score is relatively high. China Agricultural University offers veterinary medicine as a first-class discipline, while two disciplines offers basic veterinary medicine, preventive veterinary medicine, clinical veterinary medicine, veterinary biomedicine and veterinary hygiene. In 2003 and 2009, the school's veterinary medicine ranked first in the country; In 2009, the first-class discipline of veterinary medicine was rated as the national key first-class discipline.
The animal medicine major of Beijing Agricultural College has many enrollment plans in Beijing, which belongs to a large enrollment. The annual plan is basically around 30 people, and the admission score is moderate. Its goal is to cultivate new urban, compound and applied excellent veterinarians who are engaged in ensuring animal health and animal product safety and can serve life sciences, medicine and other fields.
In addition to several universities in Beijing, there are more than 60 universities in China offering veterinary specialties. In the 20 12 national university discipline evaluation, Huazhong Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jilin University, Yangzhou University, Northeast Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University, Northwest A&F University and other universities are among the best in veterinary medicine. When choosing an institution, candidates can make a comparative choice according to their actual situation, comprehensive interests, scores and other factors.
Veterinarians should be concerned about whether their physical condition is necessary.
Learning animal medicine requires love and responsibility. Many students' initial desire to choose this major is simple, that is, they simply like it, but courses such as animal anatomy are not acceptable to everyone. Students who are not interested in biology in high school, especially those who are particularly afraid of animals, should choose carefully.
Animal medicine majors also have certain requirements for candidates' physical conditions. According to "Guiding Opinions on Physical Examination of Enrollment in Ordinary Colleges and Universities", schools are not allowed to accept students with mild abnormal color vision (commonly known as weak color) to apply for this major. In addition, any eye is corrected to 4.8, and the lens power is greater than 800 degrees; Hearing in both ears is less than 3 meters, or hearing in one ear is less than 5 meters, and the other ear is completely deaf, which is not suitable for studying animal medicine.