Specialist Fields in Veterinary Medicine

As listed below, a variety of specialist areas exist in veterinary medicine often combining similar medical and surgical specialties adopted in human medicine. Further separations are often found within specialist areas due to differences between practices on large and small animals. Whilst some veterinary specialties are restricted to research and teaching environments, others are practiced entirely in the field and clinic.

• Anaesthesiology
• Animal Behavior
• Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Chiropractic
• Dentistry
• Dermatology and Dermatopathology
• Endocrinology
• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
• Epidemiology and Public Health
• Equine surgery
• Infectious Diseases and Foreign Animal Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Neurology and Neurologic Surgery
• Nutrition
• Oncology
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Ophthalmology
• Pharmacology
• Parasitology
• Pathology and Hematology
• Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
• Radiology and Radiation Oncology
• Soft Tissue Surgery
• Theriogenology
• Urology and Nephrology
• Zoological Medicine