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title: Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care
description: Veterinary medicine cares for animal health. You will learn comparative anatomy and disease, common companion and farm-animal conditions, and the training path into veterinary practice.
category: health-medicine
subcategory: medicine-and-health-sciences
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/veterinary-medicine
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# Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care

Veterinary medicine cares for animal health. You will learn comparative anatomy and disease, common companion and farm-animal conditions, and the training path into veterinary practice.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Veterinary Schools Council: Information for Prospective Students

UK vet schools' joint admissions guidance: course types, the annual entry-requirements guide, work-experience expectations, personal statements, interviews, international applications and funding, plus the route to RCVS registration after graduation. UK/Commonwealth counterpart to AAVMC. Its work-experience guidance answers one of the most-asked questions on r/vetschool.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.vetschoolscouncil.ac.uk/applications/information-for-prospective-students/

**Tags:** vet-school-admissions, veterinary-careers, uk-vet-schools, rcvs-registration, work-experience

### 2. WikiVet: Veterinary Education Online

Free veterinary encyclopedia of nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed articles organised along the vet-school curriculum: anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and species-specific clinical topics, with self-test flashcards. Created by UK vet schools for students.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://en.wikivet.net/Veterinary_Education_Online

**Tags:** veterinary-reference, veterinary-anatomy, veterinary-pathology, veterinary-pharmacology, veterinary-students

### 3. Merck Veterinary Manual

**Author:** Expert contributor panel

Free, ad-free online reference covering the signs, diagnosis and treatment of diseases across companion, farm, exotic and wild animal species, plus nutrition, management, pharmacology and public health. Separate pet-owner and veterinary-professional versions. Single best free source for the knowledge itself — common companion and farm-animal conditions with comparative coverage.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.merckvetmanual.com/

**Tags:** veterinary-reference, animal-disease, veterinary-diagnosis, veterinary-pharmacology, companion-animals, livestock-health

## Books

### 1. Cunningham's Textbook of Veterinary Physiology (6th ed.)

**Author:** Bradley G. Klein (ed.); James G. Cunningham

Core veterinary physiology textbook covering neurophysiology, muscle, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, reproductive, renal and acid-base physiology across domestic species, with clinical correlations linking normal function to disease. Pairs with Dyce for the preclinical core.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323552277?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** veterinary-physiology, comparative-physiology, domestic-animals, preclinical-veterinary

### 2. Dyce, Sack, and Wensing's Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy (5th ed.)

**Author:** Baljit Singh (ed.); K.M. Dyce, W.O. Sack, C.J.G. Wensing

Standard comparative anatomy text for veterinary students, covering dogs, cats, horses, cattle, pigs, small ruminants, birds and camelids region by region, with about 1,500 colour illustrations and notes on clinical relevance and species differences.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323442641?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** veterinary-anatomy, comparative-anatomy, domestic-animals, preclinical-veterinary

## Courses

### 1. EDIVET: Do you have what it takes to be a veterinarian?

**Author:** Jessie Paterson, Susan Rhind, Kay Aitchison et al.

A roughly nine-hour sampler of first-year veterinary study from Edinburgh's Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies: basic animal care, body-systems anatomy, clinical skills, professional skills, and the history and future of the profession. The canonical free and highly recommended on-ramp for prospective vet students.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/becoming-a-veterinarian

**Tags:** veterinary-careers, vet-school-preparation, animal-care, veterinary-clinical-skills, university-of-edinburgh

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