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According to the census report, "Mean age at the time of graduation has increased since , raising concerns that career length for veterinarians may be decreasing, potentially exacerbating veterinarian shortages. The motivation behind the demographic analysis was to provide information that would help policymakers improve their workforce planning and address issues such as veterinarian shortages and high educational debt among veterinarians, said Frederic B.
Other professions conduct similar analyses, such as a census identifying , actively licensed physicians in the United States. In , the U. More than 3, veterinarians graduated from the 30 U. Out of all veterinarians, Ouedraogo said the profession is seeing a decline in practice ownership, particularly among younger veterinarians.
He attributed the decline to a combination of market consolidation and educational debt. For ages , the percentage decreased from Among owners and associates, about Men made up roughly half of all veterinarians in , decreasing to The mean age at graduation from veterinary college was 25 in and rose until about the year , for unknown reasons, before plateauing at 28 or Ouedraogo is still analyzing retirement age, but shorter career lengths could exacerbate veterinarian shortages and complicate the problem of educational debt.
If a veterinarian graduates at 24 or 25 with a certain amount of student debt to repay, Dr. Ouedraogo said, the debt will be easier to repay than for a veterinarian who graduates at 30 with the same amount to repay. Data from the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges indicate a somewhat different pattern in the age of veterinary students, said Lisa M.
Among veterinarians age 75 or younger, the number in emergency and critical care—both specialists and nonspecialists—increased Ouedraogo said. Compared with , higher percentages of veterinarians in their 30s to mids were board certified in Ouedraogo said the problem that the profession could be facing is that the replacement rate won't keep up.
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