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American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ABVO) Reading List

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

 

ABVO

This guide contains the list of books and journals recommended as study materials for the American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ABVO) (under the umbrella of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists) 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 committee if questions arise.

"All written examination questions are supported by a reference within the past seven years or from a textbook or journal article on this list of “Required” references."

Source:  Suggested Resource Material for ABVO Examination

 

Updated: 12/12/2022

 

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

Resources for ABVO Examination

Textbooks

Atlases

Updated 11/23/2022
This is only a convenience copy of the ABVO reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries. It does not replace the official ABVO reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ABVO reading list.

Resources for ABVO Examination 

Journals

 

ABVO residents are responsible for knowing the published literature for the seven years prior to the year of their examination. For the 2023 examination, material is taken from manuscripts with a publication date from 2016 to 2022. For journals which provide both electronic and printed versions, this can be confusing since a date is assigned to a manuscript when it comes out as ‘ePub ahead of print’ (DOI), and again when it is assigned to a specific issue of the printed journal. The publication date for the purposes of the ABVO Exam, is defined as the date which a publication is assigned to a printed journal issue.


In general, questions on the Multiple Choice (MC) examination will not be derived from case reports that involve single animals, although images from these case reports may appear in the Image Recognition (IR) examination.

Supplemental Journals

"Supplemental questions may be derived from pertinent articles that appear in the journals below."

Updated 11/23/2022
This is only a convenience copy of the ABVO reading list to help find copies of reading materials in local libraries. It does not replace the official ABVO reading list. Candidates are responsible for ensuring they use the latest ABVO reading list.

 

Textbooks

Journal Articles ('Classic Articles')

Many links will direct you to the full-text or to your document delivery options via FindIt@MU. For items available in our print collections or for items we don’t own, look for “Request a Copy” and we will send it to you!
Updated 12/12/2022