Can you be a vet and a doctor?

I believe vet schools are actually more competitive, per seat, than medical schools, but I may be wrong about that. There are only a few places in the world where you would be able to practice both sides of the trade, and they are very remote. If you really want to do human medicine, you need to switch your studies now. read more

Yes, you can be both; however, you would need to get into med school after you finish vet school and complete their programme as well. Depending on where you live and want to practice, this would probably mean about 8 to 10+ years of university and for human medicine likely an internship or placements before you could practice. read more

Even if you hold a CPR cert, just shut up and help, don't puff yourself up like in my scenario above"I'm a doctor, I can help!". While you may be a doctor insofar as a DVM is a doctor, in the eyes of the public,"doctor" means MD or DO only, NOT PhD, JD, PharmD, OD, DDS, DVM, DPM, DPT, ScD, etc. read more

Vet is a doctor, with different set of patients. His patient is not going to tell the ailments and suffering that it is going through unlike human doctor's. Theoretically also a vet has to study a number of species unlike human doctor's who study only about human medicine. read more