Specialist Status
Understand the criteria for achieving the RCVS Specialist Status, including when to apply, application guidance, and whe...
Recognised specialties and titles
RCVS Specialist titles fall into three broad groups:
- Production Animal Medicine
- Companion and Competitive Animals
- Disciplines
Specialist titles are listed under one of these headings. In some areas, sub-specialities fall below the specialist title. Sub- specialities indicate that the holder is a specialist only in that restricted field. If you’re a specialist in one of these fields, you must show the sub-specialities in brackets after the main title of the speciality.
You can only be listed in one area, even if the fields are related. You can change your area of listing following the re-application process.
| Main title | Sub-specialities (where applicable) |
|---|---|
| A. Production Animal Medicine Group | |
| Cattle Health and Production: | Beef Dairy Genetics Mastitis Reproduction |
Camelid Health and Production Deer Health and Production Fish Health and Production Goat Health and Production Laboratory Animal Science Pig Medicine Poultry Medicine and Production Sheep Health and Production: | Sheep Health and Production (Reproduction) |
| B. Companion and Competitive Animals Group | |
| Equine Medicine: | Internal Medicine Reproduction Sports Medicine Stud Medicine |
| Equine Gastroenterology | |
| Equine Surgery: | Orthopaedics Soft Tissue |
| Feline Medicine | |
| Rabbit Medicine and Surgery | |
| Small Animal Medicine: | Endocrinology Gastroenterology Internal Medicine Oncology |
| Small Animal Surgery: | Ear, Nose and Throat Oncology Orthopaedics Soft Tissue |
| C. Disciplines Group | |
Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Emergency and Critical Care Tropical Animal Health and Production Veterinary Behavioural Medicine Veterinary Anaesthesia Veterinary Cardiology Veterinary Clinical Nutrition: Veterinary Dentistry: Veterinary Dermatology Veterinary Epidemiology Veterinary Neurology: Veterinary Nutrition Veterinary Oncology Veterinary Ophthalmology Veterinary Parasitology Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology |
Equine Equine
Small Animals
|
| State Veterinary Medicine | |
Veterinary Pathology: * (*applicants under this title are expected to be significantly involved in dealing with clinical material) | Small domestic animals (dog, cat) Farm animals (cattle, sheep, pig, goat, deer) Equine animals (horse, donkey) Laboratory animals (rabbit, rat, mouse, guinea pig, hamster, dog, non-human primates) Birds (poultry, game birds, cage birds, wild birds) Fish (wild, farmed) Zoo and Wildlife Clinical pathology Microbiology Toxicology |
| Veterinary Public Health: | Meat Hygiene Food Hygiene |
| Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging | |
| Veterinary Reproduction: | Horses Pigs Sheep Small Animal - alternative title Small Domestic Ruminants - alternative title Theriogenology |
| Zoo and Wildlife Medicine: | Avian Herpetology Mammalian Pathology Small Mammal Reptilian Wildlife Population Health Zoo Health Management |
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