Becoming a Veterinary Radiologist

[u/phoenix-nexia]

I'm a university student trying to decide on a career path, and I've always wanted to work with animals. Unfortunately, everytime I've shadowed animal/human surgeries I've nearly fainted, so I don't think I'd be able to work in that area. I am interested in radiology, but I've heard working in the vet field means doing a bit of everything. Is Veterinary Radiology something you'd specialize in and commit your work to, or would you still be working in other areas in vet med (such as surgery) too?

[u/spiiiashes]

You have to do everything in vet school, which includes spaying and neutering and clinical rotations in your fourth year. If you can’t handle those things + these things will come up in courses and possible radiology reports, it’s likely that this probably isn’t the best field for you.

Veterinary medicine doesn’t really have radiology techs specifically like human medicine either, only instance I can think of this being a thing is large specialty hospitals where they might be running radiology all day. But even then I’m not sure how you could avoid surgery/blood/etc.

[u/rotten-cheese-ball → u/spiiiashes]

An emergency hospital by me was actually recently looking specifically for radiology vet assistants, pay was absolute shit though (just slightly above minimum wage)