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American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care (ACVECC) Reading List

This is only a convenience copy of the ACVECC reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries.  It does not replace the official ACVECC reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ACVECC reading list.

This guide contains the list of books and journals recommended as study materials for the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) examination.

Residents are responsible for ensuring they are using the correct edition of a book for their exam.

Please ask your librarian, mentor, or specialty board examination comittee if questions arise.

From the ACVECC Knowledge List 2024:

"The following list of references contain the material that residents/ fellows are expected to learn with retention and comprehension during their training. To facilitate this, a recent edition of appropriate resources from each section must be provided on site at each Residency Training Facility. Computer access to the common veterinary and human medical databases must also be available on site at each Residency Training Facility.

Large Animal Candidates sitting the examination in September 2024 are responsible for required journal articles from the calendar year 2019-2023, and book titles published during or before 2023, and the Large Animal Additional article list. Please note, that as a “large animal college” material and questions is not confined to equine-only topics, but may include other species including ruminants, porcines and camelids.

Small Animal Candidates sitting the examination in September 2023 are responsible for journal articles from calendar years 2021-2023, and book titles published during or before 2021, and the Small Animal Additional article list.

Both Large Animal (LA) and Small Animal (SA) candidates sitting the General MCQ examination in September 2024 are responsible for journal articles from calendar years 2021-2023, and the journal articles that appear in both the Small Animal and Large Animal additional article lists."

Source:  ACVECC Recommended Reading Lists, American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care

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This resource updated: March 24, 2025

Source reading list updated by specialty board: 2024

This is only a convenience copy of the ACVECC reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries.  It does not replace the official ACVECC reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ACVECC reading list.

"Articles germane to the field of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care for the appropriate species should be reviewed from the following journals. Relevant articles from the required journal list are considered testable material for the ACVECC board examination. The supplemental article list provides candidates with a list of other publications in which useful articles may be published. Articles from the supplemental article list are not considered required knowledge for the board examination unless specifically listed separately on the Additional Article List."

Required Journal List:*

Supplemental Journal List

This is only a convenience copy of the ACVECC reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries.  It does not replace the official ACVECC reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ACVECC reading list.

Please note that expected knowledge is duplicated in many of these references: it is not necessary or expected that residents will be familiar with every text listed. However, several suitable texts are listed to ensure that residents have access to all pertinent information. For each knowledge category in the Required Reading List, at least one edition of a textbook that covers the appropriate species of interest and is published within the last 10 years should be available for study and reference.

(LA – Large animal, SA – Small animal, LA/SA – All species, Human – Human beings). 

Anesthesia

Cardiovascular

Emergency/Critical Care

Fluid Therapy, Acid-Base, Electrolyte

Internal Medicine

Medical Physiology

Ophthalmology

Surgery

This is only a convenience copy of the ACVECC reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries.  It does not replace the official ACVECC reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ACVECC reading list.

LA = Large animal, SA = Small animal, LA/SA = All species, Human = Human beings

Anesthesia

Cardiovascular

Emergency/Critical Care

Fluid Therapy, Acid-Base, Electrolyte

Imaging

Infectious Disease

Internal Medicine

Mechanical Ventilation

Clinical Pathology

Medical Physiology

Neurology

Pharmacology

Surgery

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