Dr. Jan Pol of Nat Geo Wild celebrated recently the 50th ceremony of his career as a veterinarian. His sudden fame on the reality prove has inspired endless viewers to pursue their own careers in veterinary medicine. Hither'south where the rural Michigan doctor earned his veterinarian caste.

'The Incredible Dr. Pol' star Dr. Jan Pol
'The Incredible Dr. Pol' star Dr. Jan Pol | Frederick Grand. Brown/Getty Images

Dr. Pol grew upward in the netherlands

Dr. Pol was raised on a dairy subcontract in the Netherlands, where he was responsible for many of the animals – cows, chickens, goats. Even at his immature historic period, under 10, Dr. Pol was expected to do his role on the busy farm.

"I was the youngest of half-dozen raised on a dairy farm in the Netherlands, then, yes, I would accept liked to become a farmer," Pol told Hollywood Soapbox in 2016. "Merely there's not enough land in the Netherlands. And when my brother needed assistance, actually the veterinary picked me up to deliver piglets at my brother's place. That was a lot of fun. So I said, 'Well, if non a dairy farmer, I'll be working with big animals.'"

The veterinarian received his degree in his homeland

In his memoir Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow, Dr. Pol explained that he received his veterinary degree at Utrecht University in the city of Utrecht in kingdom of the netherlands.

"Utrecht University'south School of Veterinary Medicine is the but vet school in the Netherlands," Dr. Politician wrote. "It's a six- or seven-year class that emphasizes what are known as big animals, basically farm animals. The emphasis in all of our courses was on keeping livestock healthy and productive and then farmers could brand money. The school was very hard."

Dr. Politico explained that college was free to anyone living in that country, merely that didn't mean staying in college was easy for students.

"In the netherlands, if you graduated loftier school you were entitled to get to college," he said. "We paid simply room and board; there was no tuition. But because of that system, they made the school very, very hard to weed out people. On my beginning solar day, in that location were iii hundred new vet students sitting more than than ane to a seat in the classroom built for one hundred people. By the second year, more than half of them were gone. Of the dozen friends I started with, only two of us fabricated information technology into a regular animal do."

Ane of Dr. Pol's own staff vets was inspired past the reality evidence star

Dr. Ray Harp joined the staff of Pol Veterinary Services in 2019. He told Dr. Politico and his son Charles on an episode of their YouTube show, Recheck, his journey in deciding to become a veterinarian. As it turns out, he and his wife regularly watchedThe Incredible Dr. Pol and it had a function in his option.

"Well, when I was deciding whether or not I should go to vet schoolhouse, we were actually watching Dr. Politician," Harp said. "And my wife said, 'I think you lot should just go alee and apply. That looks like a lot of fun.' Then, that's how I ended up going to vet school and I graduated. She had been checking the desire ads for me and it turned out that Dr. Pol was hiring."

The pair were living in Kansas City, where Harp was working at an brute infirmary. Information technology was there that he decided to pursue his doctorate in veterinary medicine at Kansas Country Academy.

"So we came upward and visited and everything worked out and here we are," he said.

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