Vet or Genetics?

I'm currently a Year 12 student doing bio, chem and geography. And I'm interested in both veterinary medicine and genetics. But I want to know which one i should pick. If anyone does these courses in uni could you please tell me what its like/why you chose them. I've always found vets interesting, and have always had an interest in animals, but have also always really loved learning about DNA, genes, mutations and whatnot. Also could you recommend work experience?

I am not currently studying either course at uni but I am a vet med applicant and my best advice is do veterinary work experience, contact your local vet clinic, preferably in person or on the phone as emails can get overlooked and try and get some insight into the vet profession. It is important for you to do so because it is the best way to know if you will actually enjoy the profession itself which is arguably more important than enjoying the course.

Thanks for the advice! I contacted my cat's vet via email but have yet to get a response so I'll definitely be reaching out in person or calling them to get a better response. Defintely gonna take the advice, thanks for the help.

I'm currently a Year 12 student doing bio, chem and geography. And I'm interested in both veterinary medicine and genetics. But I want to know which one i should pick. If anyone does these courses in uni could you please tell me what its like/why you chose them. I've always found vets interesting, and have always had an interest in animals, but have also always really loved learning about DNA, genes, mutations and whatnot. Also could you recommend work experience?

As I understand you'll definitely need a range of veterinary work experience to apply to vet med and gaining that experience will hopefully help you understand better if it's for you or not. Don't just look at small animal practices for work experience, also look to get experience lambing, other farm based experience, if there's any equine stuff near you that is probably worth exploring as well. You could also see what stuff is available at e.g. dairies or pig farms.
There's a lot of detailed information about vet work experience here: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=441897
There's also more general information about applying to vet med here: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7489650

As others have said get veterinary work experience to find out if the job actually pleases you but also bear in mind that if you do a genetics degree you won’t be a vet , but if you do a veterinary medicine or veterinary science degree ( name given to the course at Bristol) there is nothing stopping you going into research afterwards and specialising in the genetics side. I haven’t researched the topic but it seems likely that it would be possible.