Study Materials
The ZukuReview™ of Books
Seven you gotta have:
- Well organized and
- Highly useful in practice
(A little creativity/humor doesn’t hurt, either)
Guide to Bovine Clinics 4th edition—Chris and Susan Pasquini
Guide to Equine Clinics 3rd edition—Chris and Susan Pasquini, Phil Woods
Tschauner's Guide to Small Animal Clinics 2nd edition—Chris and Susan Pasquini
Generous, well-organized and creatively illustrated with cartoons of animals and conditions that stick in your memory. Soft bound and small enough to carry on the road, easy to use.
For folks getting ready for the BCSE or the PAVE QE exams, check out:
Anatomy of Domestic Animals 11th edition— Pasquini, Spurgeon and Pasquini
Sets the standard. In addition to all the anatomy drawings you would expect, they incorporate illustrations of clinical problems associated with the piece of anatomy being discussed on that page.
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Just the facts you need to know to recognize and treat over 800 small animal conditions, from Abcessation to Zinc toxicity.
The 5-minute guide’s strength is its no-brainer alphabetic organization, (much like Plumb’s, another winner) and nuts and bolts short summaries of presentment, DDx, Testing, Rx, and Follow-up
Don’t leave vet school without it. If you are on a budget, I prefer the 5-minute Vet Consult (over Pasquini's Small Animal Clinics book (but they are both superb)
Plumb’s Veterinary Drug Handbook, 5th edition, Donald C. Plumb
Comprehensive, compact, completely useful, every day. Organized alphabetically and easy to find what you need, FAST. The small soft bound version is portable (albeit still kinda thick…) Available in CD-ROM electronic version for you gadget lovers, and included online with VIN membership.
A practice tool that no vet should be without.
Merck Veterinary Manual 9th edition
If you could only have one reference book for everything veterinary under the sun, from fish to frogs to cows to cats, Merck covers it.
Yes, the Merck is dense. Yes the text font is microscopic, and yes, and we all wish for pictures….but……. it’s the only book that has it all.
Even better, the entire Merck Veterinary Manual 9th edition is available online for FREE .
Not the first books I would buy but contain good questions.
Small Animal Internal Medicine, Darcy Shaw and Sherri Ihle National Veterinary Med Series (NVMS)
Large Animal Internal Medicine, Timothy H. Ogilvie (NVMS)
Toxicology, Gary D. Osweiller (NVMS)
Dense, outline format, but the chapters well-organized by signs like "vomiting" or "diarrhea". Best, they have good, clinically-oriented PRACTICE QUESTIONS.
The Zuku Review has gotten feedback from students that these questions were helpful to them.
And for fun:
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RMM The Second Oldest Profession |
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A Mid-stream Collection If you haven’t seen the hilarious cartoons of Robert M Miller, DVM, then your veterinary education has a serious fistula in it. www.robertmmiller.com. |
