The future of Veterinary

When I think about my future as a veterinarian, there are many aspects that I haven't defined yet. I don't know on wich area I want to specialize, or where I want to live. But I know what I have to consider when the time to decide arrives:

-There are so many veterinary's hospitals! Where ever you look there is one, in every corner. So, if I decide to work in clinics, specializing even more will be completely necessary, like do a magister in exotic animals or in neurology or something like that. This happens mainly because there is no regulation to create universities, less for veterinary schools. In the past part of that regulation was in hands of the COLMEVET (Colegio Médico Veterinario), but in the military government they change it, and leave us unprotected.


-If I want to work with horses, another problem shows up: it is a extremely sexist area. I prefer to think that is because to work with horses you may need to be strong, but if you're a good professional and work hard there shouldn’t be any discrimination. I don’t know much more about this, but I hope that it's change soon.

-For what I've been told the ones who make more money are those that work in production (meat production, eggs, milk, etc) and with horses too. About production, there are some challenges veterinarians have to take now and improve in the future. That is to make the production the most friendly with the environment as possible, and to do the field need complete professionals, people open to new ideas and ways to do the things.

I'm sure there is much more things that can be said about the future of this career, but as confused as I'm is hard to do it. Any way, one of the thing that I love the most about this profession, is the large list of options that we have, there is many things yo can do, we just need to find the information and make the right decition (but sometimes, thats the hardest part)ç

Regards.

The right to education (já)

Today the topic is the education in Chile, what a complicated subject!! We can go on and on talking about it, and never find the solution. That and the non-existent politic will to do something is what has the education in a terrible crisis



To build education, we need strong and solid foundations. So, we have to start from preschool and basic (primary) and then in “media”. I’m not an expert in education, so I can’t say how to fix it, but I think that it needs to include civil education, and reconsider the famous “full journey”. About universities there are so many things to fix! Like the indebt, PSU as selection system, the regulation of the work market or democracy in to the faculties and colleges, etc…


But first of all the Estate HAS to assume is responsibility to give to all the people fare and good education. Education can’t be a business, and the actual system proves it: THIS SYTEM IS NOT WORKING. The right of education is vital to make a country, and to grow up as nation. Just when that happens we can start building the future of our country. And this is part of a bigger problem: we need to change the constitution, change it completely.

Contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise

This article is about an investigation about contagious yawning. A group of scientist made an study called No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise,Geochelone carbonaria.

-Objectives of the study: discriminate between the possible mechanisms controlling contagious yawning by asking whether contagious yawning is present in a species that is unlikely to show empathy or nonconscious mimicry: the redfooted tortoise, G carbonaria.

-Why they choose these animals? : Because tortoises have not been known to mimic each other, but sometimes respond to things they see around them. Besides, tortoises had never previously been involved in a contagious yawning task or any similar experiment.

-First step of the experiment: the researchers pick one of the seven tortoises that they choose to do the experiment and trained her to open her mouth whenever they waved a little red square near her head. This took six months, and the resulting behaviour appeared highly similar to a naturally occurring tortoise yawn.

-Next steps of the experiment:

a) The other tortoises watched as the trained tortoise yawned a single time.

b) Trained tortoise yawned several times in succession.

c) The observer tortoises watched videos of a tortoise yawning and not yawning.

-Conclusions: The scientists conclude with the suggestion that "tortoises do not yawn in a contagious manner".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/02/improbable-research-yawning-contagious-tortoise