Also called: Animal Heart Specialist
A specialist vet who diagnoses and treats heart disease in dogs, cats and other animals at specialty and university hospitals, using echocardiograms and procedures.
Runs echocardiograms on cats with heart murmurs, implants pacemakers in dogs, and even fixes heart defects in puppies with catheter procedures.
Estimate; board-certified specialists typically earn well above general-practice vets.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 13 years after high school. Bachelor's, 4-year DVM, a 1-year internship, then a 3-year cardiology residency.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Animal Science, Biology, Pre-Veterinary, Zoology.
Growing much faster than average (about 10% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps measure echo images and flag murmurs; running echocardiograms and implanting pacemakers stay hands-on specialist work.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Physics, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1131.
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