Career Week Talk 3 FPV UPM

Day 3

Dr. Chua Chee Heng, Prof Dato Dr. Mohamed Shariff Mohamed Din and
Dr. Rebecca Tan

     The third day of career week, we are very fortunate to have great speakers to give us the guideline and motivation about the veterinary field. The speakers are Dr. Chua Chee Heng (Psychologist, he was a vet previously), Prof Dato Dr. Mohamed Shariff Mohamed Din (Aquatic Vet) and a very enthusiastic Equine Vet Dr. Rebecca Tan.

1.    Name of speaker: Dr. Chua Chee Heng

Job Description: Psychologist

• Assessing a client's needs, abilities or behaviour using a variety of methods, including psychometric tests, interviews and direct observation of behaviour. 
• Offering therapy and treatments for difficulties relating to mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, addiction, social and interpersonal problems and challenging behaviour. 
• Developing and evaluating service provision for clients.
• Providing consultation to other professions, encouraging a psychological approach in their work

2.    Name of speaker: Prof Dato Dr. Mohamed Shariff Mohamed Din

Job Description: Aquatic Vet / Lecturer in UPM FPV

• Delivering lectures, seminars and tutorials
• Developing and implementing new methods of teaching to reflect changes in research
• Designing, preparing and developing teaching materials
• Assessing students' coursework
• Setting and marking examinations
• Supporting students through a pastoral or advisory role
• Undertaking personal research projects and actively contributing to the institution's research profile
• Writing up research and preparing it for publication
• Supervising students' research activities

3.    Name of speaker: Dr. Rebecca Tan

Job Description: Equine medicine

•  Diagnose and treat horses involved in various activities, from competition to production. 

·   Performing basic exams, giving routine vaccinations, drawing blood, prescribing medications, evaluating and suturing wounds, performing surgeries, and post-surgical follow up exams

·    Performing pre-purchase exams, monitoring the reproductive health of breeding stallions and broodmares, assisting with foalings, and taking x-rays

Lastly, throughout the career week, I have learnt that the Veterinarian have to diagnose, prevent, and treat a variety of animal illnesses and diseases. Other than that, they also administer tests, observe conditions in animals, perform surgery, and prescribe medication and/or therapy. Veterinarians work in private clinics or animal hospitals.

After attending to the career week, I have known more about veterinary field. There are lot of jobs out there can be apply as the graduate from Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

As a Vet, we can work in poultry, small animals, equine, livestock, veterinary inspector, pharmaceutical industry and etc.

I always wanted be either a Wildlife or Equine Vet. As I love horses very much. I really hope that I can work as the Equine Vet in the near future.

My favourite veterinarian is Dr. Rebecca Tan, I like her passion about horses. She could speak about horses for many many hours and the way she delivered her speech was very different. I can feel her passion working as an Equine Vet.