Types of Veterinary Medicine

A career in veterinary medicine is possible.

Where do they work?
  • Academia
  • Army
  • Corporate / Industry
  • Government
  • Private Practice
  • Private Consulting
  • Public Policy
  • Public Health
  • Research
What species do they work with?
  • Aquatics
  • Avian
  • Cattle
  • Equine
  • Exotics
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Poultry
  • Small Animal
  • Small Ruminants
  • Zoo Medicine
  • Wildlife

What can they specialize in?

  • Anesthesiology
  • Animal Behavior
  • Animal Welfare
  • Birds (pet and ornamental)
  • Bovine
  • Canine
  • Cardiology
  • Clinical Pathology
  • Clinical Pharmacology
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Diagnostics
  • Equine
  • Emergency & Critical Care
  • Forensic Veterinary
  • Feline
  • Veterinary Immunology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Laboratory Animal Medicine
  • Microbiology
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Nutrition
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Parasitology
  • Pathology
  • Porcine
  • Poultry
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Reptile & Amphibian
  • Shelter Medicine
  • Sports Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Theriogenology
  • Toxicology
  • Zoological Medicine

Veterinary Specialty Organizations

American Association of Avian Pathologists
American Association of Industry Veterinarians
American Association of Swine Veterinarians
American Board of Veterinary Practitioners
American Board of Veterinary Toxicology
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
American College of Poultry Veterinarians
American College of Theriogenologists
American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia
American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology

American College of Veterinary Dermatology
American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
American College of Veterinary Microbiologists
American College of Veterinary Nutrition
American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
American College of Veterinary Radiology
American College of Veterinary Surgeons
American College of Zoological Medicine
American Veterinary Dental College

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