Using your degree: Veterinary Medicine
Nearly all Cambridge vet graduates go in to practice, although some become Junior Clinical Training Scholars. In recent years, two have retrained through graduate medicine courses.
Some other paths open to vet graduates
- Research: either straight from your degree or after some clinical practice (the Wellcome Trust, at time of writing, provides funding for vets with some experience in practice – currently called 'PhD Training Fellowships for Clinicians')
- Pharmaceutical industry: career case studies within this sector - veterinary surgeon and toxicologist (from Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Careers website)
- Named Veterinary Surgeon: introduction to this role (from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) website)
- Government Veterinary Service: introduction to this role
- The Association of Veterinary Students has a map of possible pathways.
- Get further ideas from articles in Vet Record Careers, case studies on the Prospects website.
Where to find jobs
The Veterinary Record is a key resource, with articles on careers too, but networking is also useful.
At time of writing (November 2019), there are 875 Cambridge vet graduates on LinkedIn.