American Board of Veterinary Practitioners: Dairy Practice Study & Reading Guide

Related residency and internship programs at NCSU CVM:

• Ruminant Health and Reproductive Management Internship
• Ruminant Health Management Residency

Texts:

• Current Veterinary Therapy (1-4) : Food Animal Practice - Howard [also available as online book (5th ed)]
• Current Therapy in Theriogenology - Morrow
• Current Therapy in Large Animal Theriogenology - Youngquist [also available as online book]
• Food Animal Surgery - Noordsy
• Herd Health: Food Animal Production Medicine - Radostits, Leslie & Fetrow
• Lameness in Cattle - Greenough
• Large Animal Clinical Nutrition - Ralston and Naylor
• Large Animal Internal Medicine - Smith
• Large Dairy Herd Management - Van Horne, et. al.
• The Merck Veterinary Manual, Ninth Edition [10th ed. 2010 also available]
• Veterinary Medicine by Radostits, et al.  [NB: Spelled Rhadostits on list]

Journals:

• American Journal of Veterinary Research
• Bovine Practitioner
• Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
• Journal of Animal Science
• Journal of Dairy Science
• Theriogenology

• Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

Miscellaneous:

Proceedings:

• AABP (Association of Bovine Practitioners) especially 1985 to current NB: 1985-1994 cataloged as separate records
• Dairy Production Medicine Meeting
• National Mastitis Council
• Society for Theriogenology

Continuing Education:

• AABP (especially the pre-convention seminars on nutrition, quality milk production, dairy economic health, calf rearing, records analysis, etc.)
• ABVP Bovine Sessions
• ADSA Meetings
• ASAS Meetings
• AVMA Meetings
• Certification Programs ("currently programs are being offered at Penn, Guelph and Ohio State  that, upon completion, certify the practitioner as having completed extensive course work in dairy production medicine")
• Dairy Production Medicine Meetings
• National Mastitis Council
• Society for Theriogenology

Questions on the examination may be taken from source other than this list.

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Updated 2/15/2013