SURGERY

In the United States, veterinary surgery is one of 20 veterinary specialties recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Those wishing to become board-certified must perform a large number of large animal and small animal procedures in such categories as abdominal surgery, surgical treatment of angular limb deformities, arthroscopic surgery, surgery of the foot, fracture fixation, ophthalmic surgery, urogenital surgery, and upper respiratory surgery.