Can vets specialize to just pandas

Im a huge panda enthusiast, especially baby pandas, and im currently in year 12. I'm debating on becoming a cardiac surgeon/cardiologist or a vet and I'm currently leaning towards the cardiac field but if I can specialise just to pandas, then I'll most likely choose the veterinary route so could someone, with experience, please answer my question?

While I'm not 100% sure on the specifics as I'm not looking into exotics, I don't think being just a panda vet is massively realistic. As said above, you could become a zoo vet, and maybe specialising in bears in general would be more realistic. But thinking logically there is not that many pandas in the world, much less if you are only based in one area, and these pandas are unlikely to need vet attention every day, and even when they do it's unlikely to take up a whole day, so I can't imagine you'd have much work as a panda vet if it were possible. If you are truly only wanting to be a panda vet with little interest in other animals I would not advise becoming a vet, at uni I can't imagine there is a lot of specific panda content (though if going into exotics you can do work in zoos) and a lot of the learning is focused around domesticated animals, like dogs, cats, sheep, cows, etc for 5+ years.

If you really want a career with pandas I'd look more into a conservation or zoo keeper direction, though I can't advise much about those.

To qualify as a vet you need to learn to treat everything - fish to cows to dogs to guinea pigs to horses and so on. This will take 5 or 6 years to get qualified. After that you will need to find work. There simply aren't enough pandas in the world for that to be the only animal you work with.
It is not realistic to base your future job aspirations on a love of baby pandas.

You seem like you know your stuff so do you know anything about, realistically speaking, how many years it would take to be a certified cardiologist because most sites have varying answers and it's all a bit confusing to me.

I’m also in year 12 but I imagine it would be quite unusual to specialise in just pandas. I think it is more common to just be a zoo vet. Although I’m only in year 12 so I’m not sure.
Both things you have mentioned are very specialised I know most people change their minds throughout (vet) med school so keep an open mind.
There is also a very large pay difference I’d imagine you would get at least double if you were a cardiologist/ cardiac surgery.

After medical school: 2 years foundation training, 3 years internal medicine training, 5 years cardiology specialty training.

That's the "minimum" though, since people may not get into the training programme straight away, or may choose to take time out for research etc.

That's all on top of the 5 year medicine course right? Damnn, that's a lot of years lmao. I assume you don't get paid through those years too so you have to live off student loans and bursaries until you're 33? That doesn't seem too nicee. Thanks for the answerr

Yeah, on top of the medicine course. Yeah you are paid after medical school, and you are a qualified doctor, treating patients.

Im a huge panda enthusiast, especially baby pandas, and im currently in year 12. I'm debating on becoming a cardiac surgeon/cardiologist or a vet and I'm currently leaning towards the cardiac field but if I can specialise just to pandas, then I'll most likely choose the veterinary route so could someone, with experience, please answer my question?